Reporter Adam Hochschild is the author of Ending All Wars (20 1 1), which describes the First World War from the perspective of British hawks and doves. In order to better understand this conflict, 19 15 and 19 18.
Author "
In "Fundamentals of Hell" (1992), the fuze troops in Lancashire from Burry in northern England suffered the most casualties. 18 16 years, the regiment lost 13642 people in gallipoli alone. Reporter Jeffrey Moorhouse
The theme is close to home. He grew up in Burry, a small mill town, and his grandfather survived in gallipoli. In The Foundation of Hell, morehouse describes the city, its residents' attitude towards the war, and the persistent suffering of the surviving soldiers. From Hodge.
By showing the influence of the war on an English town, the war is a fascinating and unusual sight from a microscopic point of view.
It was a young man's suicide note (1933), 19 15, Vera Brittain, who was studying at Oxford University at that time.
Joined the army and became a nurse in the British Army Volunteer Aid Detachment. During her stay in England, Malta and France, she witnessed the horror of war with her own eyes. She wants to write about her experience. At first, she was going to write a novel, but she was frightened by the form. Then she considered publishing her real diary. However, in the end, she described her life from 1900 to 1925 by catharsis in her memoir "The Last Words of Youth". This memoir is called the most famous book about women's experiences in World War I, and it is an important work of feminist movement and autobiography as a genre. From Hodge.
Breta lost her brother, fiance and a comrade-in-arms when she was a nurse.
Rebirth In the 1990s, British writer Pat Barker,
He wrote three novels: Rebirth (199 1), Eye in the Door (1993) and Ghost Road (1995). Although fictional, this series about British officers who were attacked by artillery shells is based on real life stories to some extent. For example, Siegfried Sason in Pearl Buck's works is closely related to the real Siegfried Sason. Siegfried Sason is a poet and a soldier in war, on which Dr. W.H.R. Rivers is based. "* * *" once called this trilogy "a fierce reflection on the horror of war and its psychological consequences." Hodge: The Best Description of War in Recent Novels
Paul fussell, with his sharp eloquence and broad perspective, wrote about the fate of the Anti-Japanese War in prison from the madness at the front.
The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) was written by paul fussell.
After serving as an infantry officer in World War II, he felt close to the soldiers in World War I. But he wanted to know how much he had to do with their experiences. "How do those people in the trench world feel about the war? How did they spend this bizarre experience? Finally, how do they transform their emotions into language and literary forms? He wrote in the postscript of the 25th anniversary edition of The Great War and Modern Memory:
In order to answer these questions, forssell directly consulted the first-hand information of World War I written by twenty or thirty Britons who had participated in this war. It is from this literary perspective that he wrote great wars and modern memories about trench life. John Key Gunn, a military historian, once called this book "the epitome of European collective experience."
From Hodgde: a scholar's exquisite and superb research on the literature and myth of war, and he himself was an injured veteran in World War II.
The first world war (1998) was rooted in John Key.
The title of World War I is simple and clear, but as far as it is concerned, it has brought great challenges to the author: to tell the whole story of World War I, kevin keegan's account of this war is undoubtedly panoramic. The most perfect content includes historians' analysis of geography, technology and military tactics used in specific campaigns, as well as thinking about the thinking process of world leaders. Hodge's
It is difficult to sum up this catastrophe in one book, but kevin keegan's book may be the best attempt.