Adrian Gregory

3905. The Silence of Memory Armistice Day 1919-1946, by Adrian Gregory (read 28 June 2004) This book turned out to be quite a narrow book, concentrating on the observance of Nov 11 in England, and while evidencing a lot of research was not as interesting as I expected. The final chapter sets out at the beginning the poignant and evocative lines by Vernon Scannell:
Whenever the November sky
Quivers with a bugle's hoarse, sweet cry,
The reason darkens; in its evening gleam
Crosses and flares, tormented wire, grey earth
Splattered with crimson flowers,
And I remember,
Not the war I fought in
But the one called Great
Which ended in a sepia November
Four years before my birth.

Here is a site where the whole poem can be read: Aftermath Poetry: The Great War… (plus d'informations)