No More Parades is the second in Ford Madox Fords Parades End series. The book, released just a few years after the close of the war, is based on Fords combat experiences as an enlisted man in World War I, and continues the story first begun in Some Do Not .... Christopher Tietjens, after recovering from the shell shock he suffered in Some Do Not ..., has returned to the edge of the war as a commanding officer in charge of preparing draft troops for deployment to the front. As the "last true Tory," Tietjens demonstrates talent bordering on genius as he struggles against the laziness, incompetence, and confusion of the army around himbut his troubles only begin when his selfcentered and scandalous wife Sylvia appears at his base in Rouen for a surprise visit. Unlike Some Do Not ..., which was told in a highly modernist series of flashbacks and flashforwards, Parades End is a much more straightforward narrative. Despite this, the characters continue to be realized in an incredibly complex and nuanced way. Tietjens, almost a caricature of the stiff, honorable English gentleman, stoically absorbs the problems and suffering of those around him. Ford simultaneously paints him as an almost Christlike character and an immature, idealistic schoolboy, eager to keep up appearances despite the ruination it causes the people around him. Sylvia, his wife, has had her affairs and scandals, and is clearly a selfish and trying personality but her powerful charm, and her frustration with...

Binding: Paperback;314 pages; Publisher: BoD Third Party Titles; Classification: N/A; Weight: 534.13 g; Dimensions: N/A

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