The general said that that afternoon Tietjens would receive a movement order. He said stiffly that he must not regard this new movement as a disgrace. It was promotion. He, Major-General Campion, was requesting the colonel commanding the depot to inscribe the highest possible testimonial in his, Tietjens', small-book. He, Tietjens, had exhibited the most extraordinary talent for finding solutions for difficult problems. The colonel was to write that! ...

Tietjens thought:

"Good God. I am being sent up the line. He's sending me to Perry's Army... That's certain death!"

‘No more Hope, no more Glory, no more parades for you and me any more. Nor for the country . . . Nor for the world, I dare say . . .’, says Christopher Tietjens to a war-damaged fellow officer, under fire on the Western Front. No More Parades continues Parade’s End from Tietjens’ return to the Front in 1917. Ford's searing account of the war is unforgettable: supplies are inadequate, orders confused; men die among the ‘endless muddles; endless follies’. Death replaces love; Tietjens’ betrayal by his wife Sylvia mirrors the violence and dishonour of the war.

No More Parades includes:
-- the first reliable text, based on the hand-corrected typescript and first editions
-- a major critical introduction by Joseph Wiesenfarth, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women
-- an account of the novel’s composition and reception
-- annotations and a glossary explaining historical references, military terms, literary and topical allusions
-- a full textual apparatus including transcriptions of significant deletions and revisions
-- a bibliography of further reading

Cover painting: John Nash, Oppy Wood, 1917. Evening. 1918. By permission of the Imperial War Museum. Cover design by StephenRaw.com.