Madox Hueffer Ford

Parade's End is a tetralogy by Ford Madox. The four novels were originally published under the titles: Some Do Not … (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up – (1926), and Last Post (or The Last Post in the USA) (1928). It is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welsh Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. The novels chronicle the life of Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant government statistician from a...

A Man Could Stand Up is part three of Parade's End Ford Madox Ford's tetrology set in the World War I era (1914 to 1918) in England and in the trenches in France. The hero, Christopher Tietjens, and suffragette campaigner Valentine Wannop are united on Armistice Day. Ford Madox Ford (1873 – 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English...