Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 Into Uniform, Beginning – 1916

Chapter 2 In the Trenches, 1916–19

Chapter 3 A Writer in the Making, 1919–26

Chapter 4 The Writing of Journey’s End, 1927–28

Chapter 5 The Aftermath, 1929

Chapter 6 What Next? 1930–31

Chapter 7 The Universal Years, 1932–35

Chapter 8 Pastures New, 1935–37

Chapter 9 Korda and MGM, 1937–40

Chapter 10 Semi-Official Business, 1940–44

Chapter 11 Back to Blighty, 1944–50

Chapter 12 Pinnacle, 1950–56

Chapter 13 Curtain, 1956–75

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography