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JOHN MARTIN ROBINSON, Requisitioned The British Country House in the Second World War, London, Aurum Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781781310953, £25 In the epilogue to Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, it is the close of the Second World War and Charles Ryder finds himself unexpectedly back at Brideshead Castle. The house he had known as a youth, however, has now been requisitioned by the military, and Lieutenant Hooper, Ryder's subordinate, observes, `One family in a place this size. It doesn't make any sense.' Later, when Ryder finds himself alone in the chapel, he muses: I thought that the builders did not know the uses to which their work would descend. They made a new house with the stones of the old castle. Year by year the great harvest of timber in the park grew to ripeness, until, in sudden frost, came the Age of Hooper. The place was desolate and the work all brought to nothing; Quomodo sedet sola civitas vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Waugh's poignant allusion to the Biblical destruction of Jerusalem refers to more than just the destructive power of the Second World War (the novel was published in 1945) it also evokes
Architectural Heritage – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Nov 1, 2015
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