A Man Could Stand Up—
by Ford Madox Ford
284 pages~5 hrs
“When the guns stop, the world begins again.”
As the guns of the Great War fall silent, Christopher Tietjens returns to a London transformed by the feverish joy of Armistice Day. This masterful portrait of psychological survival captures the breathtaking, fragile moment when a soldier is finally permitted to stand tall in a world changed forever.
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