THE GREAT WAR: Web Pages by Allen J. Frantzen   [home]

OPERA LIBRETTO & PLAY
    A SON AT THE FRONT (with pictures from 2009 production)
           Text by Allen J. Frantzen · Music by John Frantzen
SONG CYCLE
    CIRCLES OF GRIEF: Three Letters from the Great War
           Text by Allen J. Frantzen · Music by Pierre Thilloy
WAR MEMORIALS
(Photographs)

  UNITED STATES
    Chicago
    Iowa
    Wyoming
  ENGLAND
    London
    Bury St. Edmunds
    Villages in Suffolk
    Elsewhere in the UK

  FRANCE
    The Western Front
    Paris
    Burgundy
  GERMANY
    Bavaria (Augsburg & surrounding towns)
  ITALY
    Lake Como
POSTCARDS

    US (pending)
    ENGLAND (pending)
    FRANCE (pending)
    GERMANY (pending)
    RUSSIA (pending)
PUBLICATIONS

BOOK Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and World War I. University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 330.
ARTICLES "Tears for Abraham: The Chester Play of Abraham and Isaac and Antisacrifice in Works by Wilfred Owen, Benjamin Britten, and Derek Jarman," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31 (2001): 445-76.
REVIEWS Richard Schweitzer. The Cross and the Trenches: Religious Faith and Doubt among British and American Great War Soldiers. American Historical Review (2005): 448-49.
Michael Snape. God and the British Soldier: Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Church History 2007.
Stefan Goebel. The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940. American Historical Review 113 (2008), 566-67.
(Above:) The Campaign of 1914: The arrival of German Prisoners at Bèthune

Sept. 2009