Parade's End,

An epic in four parts following the life, over two decades, of wealthy government statistician Christopher Tietjens. Moving back and forth between the battlefields of the Great War and post war England Tietjens flounders in a ruinous marriage, a platonic ‘affair’ with a suffragette and the unnatural role of army officer that he feels compelled to undertake. This tetralogy includes Some Do Not..., No More Parades, A Man could Stand Up and The Last Post, published as separate volumes between 1924 and 1928.