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JOHN MARTIN ROBINSON, Requisitioned – The British Country House in the Second World War , London, Aurum Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781781310953, £25

JOHN MARTIN ROBINSON, Requisitioned – The British Country House in the Second World War , London,... 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 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Architectural Heritage Edinburgh University Press

JOHN MARTIN ROBINSON, Requisitioned – The British Country House in the Second World War , London, Aurum Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781781310953, £25

Architectural Heritage , Volume 26 (1): 171 – Nov 1, 2015

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Copyright
© The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland, 2015
Subject
Reviews; Historical Studies
ISSN
1350-7524
eISSN
1755-1641
DOI
10.3366/arch.2015.0076
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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

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Published: Nov 1, 2015

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