Unit 6
Background Reading for Unit 6
For those students intending to complete the full two-year
A Level course, reading related to the First World War will
be essential. The Unit 6 test requires you to analyse unprepared
extracts from a range of WW1 texts and genres. The sooner you
begin reading some of these, or other relevant texts from the
AQA recommended reading list, the better.
Click
here to go
to the War
Literature pages. A longer list of texts and other resources is issued by the
examination board and will be given to you once you have started
on the course. The following are a short selection: -
| Birdsong |
Sebastian
Faulks |
| Journey’s
End |
R.C.
Sherriff |
| Poems
of: |
Wilfred
Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke etc |
| Scars
Upon my Heart |
selected
by Catherine Reilly |
| Somme |
Lyn
Macdonald |
| Letters
from a Lost Generation |
ed.
Bishop & Bostridge |
| The
Regeneration Trilogy |
Pat
Barker |
| Testament
of Youth |
Vera
Brittain |
| Strange
Meeting |
Susan
Hill |
| Memoirs
of an Infantry Officer |
Siegfried
Sassoon |
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