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But The Images—the Paper Eye, The Stomach Like A...

the scene as if it were on stage. The word 'weep' adds to the deliberately formal quality. In Alamein to Zem Zem, Douglas writes : 'Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we......

This New Edition Includes All Douglas's Line Drawings,...

the editors tell us, it proved impossible to include the colour illustrations. Many of the drawings depict dead bodies, and Douglas's attitude to death is the key to his mature......

D I N October 1942, As The Battle Of Alamein Began,

Keith Douglas was at divisional head- quarters, with an easy job as officer in charge of camouflage training. Bored and frustrated, he set out, in direct disobedience of orders,......