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Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s, between the England of Pomp and Circumstance, the first Post-Impressionist show and Man and Superman and the England of The Waste Land, Facade and The Green Hat, World War I opens like a gap in history, separating one world of b…
The author examines accounts written by both victims of war and by soldiers and "illuminates the crucial points of change in this century's war story--and that story's consequences for our culture."--Jacket.
Shows us how war looks to soldiers of both World Wars and Vietnam.
Focusing on the soldiers of the two world wars and Vietnam, and on the accounts written by victims of war - survivors of POW camps, the Nazi death camps, and the atom bombs - Samuel Hynes shows us how war looks to a soldier on the field at the Somme, or Khe Sanh, or the Salerno …