Parade's End (Parade's End #1-4) by Ford Madox Ford, Robie Macauley (Introduction); 2001. Softcover. (Penguin Classics) (CO)

Originally published in four parts between 1924 and 1928, this extraordinary novel centers on Christopher Tietjens, an officer and gentleman – "the last English Tory" – and follows him from the secure, orderly world of Edwardian England into the chaotic madness of the First World War. Against the backdrop of a world at war, Ford recounts the complex sexual warfare between Tietjens and his faithless wife Sylvia.