Usually when I study the Great War it involves military decisions, diplomatic relations, and battles. While I do enjoy that, I like to delve into the cultural side of the conflict as well. When we look at art, literature, society, and how those elements deal with war, we see truly what the war does to a civilization. The Great War monumentally changed Europe... in a big way. Reading personal accounts like that of Vera Britain in her Testament of Youth and even Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel (which is in essence a personal account of a soldier), you see the war in a different light and then to add to that...look at the influence the war has on culture and you begin to understand that a war does not just hit the soldiers, but the population...perhaps in a different way, but in a profound and important one.
Today I am reading:
British Culture and the First World War by George Robb. I hope to finish it by this afternoon, it is not very long.
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I am hoping the rain will stop soon, making the day rather dreary...not in a completely bad way, but in a sleep inducing way.
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