The second volume of Saunder's biography takes up the story in 1916, when Ford enlisted in the army, and follows him through post-war Europe to his death in 1939. During this period, Ford solidified his canonical status in modern literature. Saunders analyzes Ford's post-war masterpiece, Parade's End, and describes the founding of the Transatlantic Review, the influential literary journal that published Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Picasso, and many more major writers and artists.