PARADE'S END: SOME DO NOT…

THE GOOD SOLDIER

Set just before World War I and told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, this is the tragic story of Edward Ashburnham, the soldier to whom the title refers, and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends.

PARADE'S END: A MAN COULD STAND UP

Book 3 in the 'Parade's End' series, sequel to 'Parade's End: No More Parades' (9922). When the end of the war comes, Christopher Tietjens is suffering from shellshock. Valentine Wannop, hearing that Tietjens has returned to England, decides to go to him and look after him.

PARADE'S END: NO MORE PARADES

Book 2 in the 'Parade's End' series, sequel to 'Parade's End: Some do not…' (9662). Christopher Tietjens, an officer and gentleman, the last English Tory, is thrown from the secure, orderly world of Edwardian England into the chaotic madness of the First World War, and a complex sexual warfare with his faithless wife Sylvia.

PARADE'S END: THE LAST POST

Book 4 in the 'Parade's End' series, sequel to 'Parade's End: A Man Could Stand Up' (10256). Valentine Wannop and Christopher Tietjens now share a cottage in Sussex with Tietjens' brother and sister-in-law. Through their differing perspectives, Ford explores the tensions between his characters in a changing world, haunted by the experience of war, facing an insecure future for themselves and for England.