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To see how good Journey's End is, just look at who it's offended

Robert Gore-Langton's Journey's End: the Classic War Play Explored considers R.C. Sherriff's continuing power to move - and to upset

14 December 2013

9:00 AM

14 December 2013

9:00 AM

Journey’s End: The Classic War Play Explored Robert Gore-Langton

Oberon Books, pp.132, £10.99, ISBN: 9781849433952

‘You have no idea,’ wrote the publisher Ralph Hodder-Williams in 1929 to one of his authors,

what terrible offence Journey’s End has given — and terrible pain too, which is a great deal more important. I think you will agree that the chronic alcoholic was extraordinarily rare.

He was referring to R.C.

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