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This edition published in paperback 1996
Copyright © Kenneth Pople 1991
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Source ISBN: 9780002556644
Ebook Edition © JUNE 2016 ISBN: 9780008193287
Version: 2016-06-07
CONTENTS
Part One: The Early Cookham Years 1891–1915
2 The Fairy on the Waterlily Leaf
3 John Donne Arriving in Heaven
Part Two: The Confusions of War 1915–1918
11 The Burghclere Chapel: The Beaufort panels
12 The Burghclere Chapel: Tweseldown
13 The Burghclere Chapel: The left-wall frieze
14 The Burghclere Chapel: The right-wall frieze
15 The Burghclere Chapel: The 1917 summer panels
16 The Burghclere Chapel: The infantry panels
17 The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon
Part Three: The Years of Recovery 1919–1924
18 Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem
19 Travoys Arriving with Wounded Soldiers at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia
Part Four: The Great Resurrections 1924–1931
23 The Resurrection in Cookham Churchyard
24 Burghclere: The Resurrection of Soldiers
Part Five: Return to Cookham 1932–1936
26 Portrait of Patricia Preece
Part Six: The Marital Disasters 1936–1939
33 Self-Portrait with Patricia Preece