C. E. Montague

Biography

Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928) was an English journalist, author, and war correspondent who served on the editorial staff of the Manchester Guardian for over thirty years. Despite being forty-seven when World War I began, Montague dyed his white hair black to enlist and served at the front. His postwar book Disenchantment (1922) became one of the most influential critiques of the war, expressing the bitter disillusionment of a patriotic idealist who witnessed the reality of modern warfare. Montague also wrote novels, short stories, and literary criticism, but it is Disenchantment for which he is remembered.