Sent here by BookishTexan. This is a book I never would have chosen to read (and the passages you shared are exactly why, so horrific)…but I’ve ordered a copy. Thank you for bringing awareness, for speaking up.
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Thank you Ami. One of the most powerful things about the message of WWI fiction is the universality of experience of the soldiers regardless of nationality (Barbusse, France, Boyd, the US, Remarque, Germany). All conclude that war is a pointless horror that can not be fully understood from afar. Unfortunately, WWII seemed to have convinced us that wars always solve problems and always pit good against evil. It removed nuance that was present in WWI fiction and poetry. WWII, in popular thinking was the good and just war, but it was the exception (if there can be one) WWI is more like the reality. War is a cruelty an aberration to be avoided.
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Sent here by BookishTexan. This is a book I never would have chosen to read (and the passages you shared are exactly why, so horrific)…but I’ve ordered a copy. Thank you for bringing awareness, for speaking up.
Thank you Ami. One of the most powerful things about the message of WWI fiction is the universality of experience of the soldiers regardless of nationality (Barbusse, France, Boyd, the US, Remarque, Germany). All conclude that war is a pointless horror that can not be fully understood from afar. Unfortunately, WWII seemed to have convinced us that wars always solve problems and always pit good against evil. It removed nuance that was present in WWI fiction and poetry. WWII, in popular thinking was the good and just war, but it was the exception (if there can be one) WWI is more like the reality. War is a cruelty an aberration to be avoided.
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