WAR MEMORIALS

In the mid 1920s H. V. Morton began a series of articles in theDaily Expressin which he wrote about his travels through the British countryside. The book that resulted,In Search of England(1927), quickly became one of the mid twentieth century’s best-sellers, going through twenty-three editions in i...

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Published in	The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature p. 269
Main Author	David Goldie
Format	Book Chapter
Language	English
Published	Edinburgh University Press 07.03.2012
Subjects	Anthropology Applied anthropology Applied sciences Armed conflict Armed forces Arts Behavioral sciences British literature British studies Cultural anthropology Cultural customs Engineering Ethnography Ethnology European studies Fiction Literary genres Literature Memorials Military personnel Military science Nonfiction Novels Pastoral poetry Poetic movements Poetry Political science Soldiers Transportation Travel Travel literature War War memorials War theaters World wars
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Summary:	In the mid 1920s H. V. Morton began a series of articles in theDaily Expressin which he wrote about his travels through the British countryside. The book that resulted,In Search of England(1927), quickly became one of the mid twentieth century’s best-sellers, going through twenty-three editions in its first ten years and selling a third of a million copies by 1964. By this time Morton had sold almost three million copies of his books, marking him out as ‘the most popular travel writer in Britain’ in the period.¹ In Search of Englandarguably owed its popular success
ISBN:	9780748638741 0748638741