Background
Helen McPhail was born on December 17, 1939, in Durham, England, United Kingdom.
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I'm Your Mother
(Helen McPhail is the translator of Christiane Collange's ...)
Helen McPhail is the translator of Christiane Collange's I’m Your Mother.
https://www.amazon.com/Im-Your-Mother-Christiane-Collange/dp/0099482207/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=I%E2%80%99m+Your+Mother+McPhail&qid=1581345522&s=books&sr=1-1
1986
Portrait of Wilfred Owen: Poet and soldier, 1893-1918
https://www.amazon.com/Wilfred-Owen-Poet-Soldier-1893-1918/dp/0947893318/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Wilfred+Owen%2C+Poet+and+Soldier&qid=1581344227&s=books&sr=1-1
1993
Wilfred Owen: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War
(This is a guide to the battlefields that inspired the you...)
This is a guide to the battlefields that inspired the young and sensitive poet, whose poems are probably the twentieth century's best-known literary expressions of the experience of war. Detailed maps, military diaries, photographs, and modern roads guide the visitor through the battlefields. Owen's letters are used extensively, together with his poetry, linking specific places events, vividly describing the suffering of the trench.
https://www.amazon.com/Wilfred-Owen-Trail-Battleground-Europe/dp/0850526140/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=On+the+Trail+of+the+Poets+of+the+Great+War%3A+Wilfred+Owen&qid=1581344364&s=books&sr=1-1
1998
Edmund Blunden: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War
(Edmund Blunden: On a Poets Trail is the second guide in t...)
Edmund Blunden: On a Poets Trail is the second guide in the Battleground Poet Specials. Following on from the highly successful Wilfred Owen guide, the book follows the war career of this prolific First World War poet. Details of maps, military diaries, photographs and modern roads to guide the visitor through the events, vividly describing the sufferings of battle and trench life.
https://www.amazon.com/Edmund-Blunden-Trail-Battleground-Europe/dp/0850526787/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=On+the+Trail+of+the+Poets+of+the+Great+War%3A+Edmund+Blunden&qid=1581344751&s=books&sr=1-1
1999
The Long Silence: Civilian Life under the German Occupation of Northern France, 1914-1918
(This account, based on original sources including diaries...)
This account, based on original sources including diaries, memoirs, family records, secret diaries written during the war, vivid memories and official records, shows how the rich agricultural and industrial areas of northern France were invaded, occupied and exploited between the summer of 1914 and the Armistice in November 1918. Factories were stripped, household furniture and fittings requisitioned, food supplies taken, the population maltreated and malnourished and even taken to forced labor camps until Herbert Hoover set up his scheme of aid which kept the population alive during the war. This fascinating account describes how French civilians responded in familiar ways in the war.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Silence-Civilian-Occupation-1914-1918/dp/1860644791/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Long+Silence%3A+French+Civilian+Life+under+the+German+Occupation%2C+1914-1918&qid=1581344865&s=books&sr=1-1
1999
St Quentin: Hindenburg Line
(After the First World War, how many thousands of British ...)
After the First World War, how many thousands of British families would have proud or bitter reason to remember the name St Quentin? At least eight Divisions, 23 Brigades, 74 Battalions an enormous number of fighting men, a weight of experience, courage, defeat and victory, all to be traced through these fields and villages round the city. There is much to honour here: exhausted British troops marching south in the Retreat from Mons in August 1914, resistance attacks on the Hindenburg Line in 1917, desperate feats of arms in the final German onslaught in the Spring of 1918. Many impressive individual and collective achievements, captured guns, Victoria Crosses richly earned. The ancient city itself suffered too - bombardment by French and British artillery, its citizens subjected and exploited by the occupying German forces, then evacuated ahead of the withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line - before its final liberation in October 1918. The book gives details of positions, redoubts, attacks, lines of advance and retreat, with many illustrations provided from local sources. Most of the positions described can still be traced and the sites of some epic events located.
https://www.amazon.com/Quentin-Battleground-Europe-philip-Guest-ebook/dp/B00L6Z9DXS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Battleground+Europe%3A+Saint+Quentin&qid=1581345097&s=books&sr=1-1
2000
Sassoon & Graves: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War
(The war memoirs of these two officers with the Royal Wels...)
The war memoirs of these two officers with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers have never been out of print since their first publication. Both men won instant and enduring fame with these very different narratives, which made them two of the most influential participants in shaping later attitudes to the war. Graves gave offence in many quarters with his factual inaccuracies and/or slurs on various units of the British Army. Sassoon's nostalgic evocation of his cricketing and fox-hunting background contrast with the detailed narrative of personalities and life in the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Arras. The thinly disguised names of real fellow officers are unravelled to help illustrate Sassoon's poetry and actions.
https://www.amazon.com/Sassoon-Graves-Trail-Poets-Battleground-ebook/dp/B00KTM7MYG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=On+the+Trail+of+the+Poets+of+the+Great+War%3A+Robert+Graves+and+Siegfried+Sassoon&qid=1581345322&s=books&sr=1-1
2001
The Long Silence: The Tragedy of Occupied France in World War I
(The horrors of the Western Front are widely known, but wh...)
The horrors of the Western Front are widely known, but what was life like on 'the other side of the trenches' in World War I? Helen McPhail here shows how the rich agricultural and industrial areas of northern France were invaded by the Germans, then occupied and exploited by them, between the summer of 1914 and the Armistice in November 1918. Factories were stripped, household furniture and fittings requisitioned, food supplies taken, the population mistreated and malnourished and even taken to forced labour camps - the people lived in terror. Starvation loomed and contact with the outside world vanished. Based on original sources, including diaries, letters, and journals, this fascinating account describes how - in the struggle to survive - French civilians responded in ways familiar in World War II: escape networks, espionage, producing clandestine newspapers and attempting to help British soldiers trapped behind enemy lines. It provides a unique viewpoint on a forgotten aspect of World War I.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Silence-Tragedy-Occupied-France/dp/1784530530/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Long+Silence%3A+The+Tragedy+of+Occupied+France+in+World+War+I+McPhail&qid=1581345904&s=books&sr=1-1
2014
Wilfred Owen's Shrewsbury: From the Severn to Poetry and War
https://www.amazon.com/Wilfred-Owens-Shrewsbury-Severn-Poetry/dp/1910839256/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Wilfred+Owen%27s+Shrewsbury%3A+From+the+Severn+to+Poetry+and+War&qid=1581346037&s=books&sr=1-1
2018
Helen McPhail
Edit ProfileEducation
Helen McPhail attended a secondary school in Worcester, England, United Kingdom.
Career
Since 1986 Helen McPhail has been a freelance literary translator in England and France. She has translated Christiane Collange's I’m Your Mother (1986), Jean Pierre Mohen's The World of Megaliths (1989), Laure Meyer's Black Africa: Masks, Sculpture, Jewelry (1990), Gérard Noiriel's Workers in French Society in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1990), Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau's Men at War: 1914-1918, National Sentiment and Trench Journalism in France during the First World War (1992), etc.
She also has published such books as Wilfred Owen: Poet and Soldier, Gliddon (1993), Wilfred Owen: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War (1998), Edmund Blunden: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War (1999), The Long Silence: French Civilian Life under the German Occupation, 1914-1918 (1999), and others.
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Works
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The Long Silence: The Tragedy of Occupied France in World War I
(The horrors of the Western Front are widely known, but wh...)
2014 -
St Quentin: Hindenburg Line
(After the First World War, how many thousands of British ...)
2000 -
The Long Silence: Civilian Life under the German Occupation of Northern France, 1914-1918
(This account, based on original sources including diaries...)
1999 -
Wilfred Owen: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War
(This is a guide to the battlefields that inspired the you...)
1998 -
Sassoon & Graves: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War
(The war memoirs of these two officers with the Royal Wels...)
2001 -
Edmund Blunden: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War
(Edmund Blunden: On a Poets Trail is the second guide in t...)
1999 -
I'm Your Mother
(Helen McPhail is the translator of Christiane Collange's ...)
1986 - Portrait of Wilfred Owen: Poet and soldier, 1893-1918 1993
- Wilfred Owen's Shrewsbury: From the Severn to Poetry and War 2018
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The Long Silence: The Tragedy of Occupied France in World War I
Interests
Connections
In 1960 Helen McPhail married David McPhail. In 1984 he died. They have three children: Lucy, Thomas, Anna McPhail Whitson.
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1986 - present
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