The Return of the Soldier (Paperback)

from labfs39

In less than 100 pages, Rebecca West creates a microcosm of British society in 1916 and a love triangle centered around an upper class WWI soldier. In the novel there are many dichotomies of wealth, class, and physical beauty, but the most important is the moral dilemma at the heart of the story:...

from pamelad

The soldier is Chris Baldry, married to the beautiful, polished, empty Kitty. Suffering from shell-shock Chris forgets fifteen years of his life, including the ten years of his marriage to Kitty, and remembers his first love, the kind and generous Margaret. A short, beautifully written novel.

from lauralkeet

This short novel describes one of the tragedies of war from a woman's perspective. Chris Baldry returns from WW I with shell-shock amnesia, and does not remember the last 15 years of his life. He thinks of his cousin Jenny as a playmate, and doesn't recognize his wife Kitty at all. Worse still, t...

from Smiler69

Our narrator recounts the homecoming of her cousin, Captain Chris Baldry who, while fighting in the First World War, has been sent home due to shell shock. Chris, who is suffering from amnesia, has had a good portion of his memory wiped out and believes he is sixteen years younger. He doesn't und...

from rainpebble

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; (5*) The Return of the Soldier is the first WW I novel to be written by a woman and is written in lovely prose. Chris Baldry, a wealthy soldier, returns from the front suffering from amnesia and having forgot the past fifteen years of his life. He has fo...