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Siegfried Sassoon and Rebecca West: A Dual-Commentary on the English Home Front in World War I

The glory of war is dead, and the Great War killed it. Soldierly dignity, heroism, and proper field chivalry; all laid to waste by a single mortar round at Arras. This ethos—a vestige of Greek warrior worship—stood little chance against the trenches. It either drowned in the fecal trench muck at the Somme or staggered back—in tatters, if that—a broken soul; another victim of the so-called “Good Fight.” And there were many victims. An entire generation, even, lost to the trenches. But that’s not even the worst part. The worst part is that home front in England didn’t even get it.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:CLAREMONT/oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cmc_theses-1205
Date01 January 2011
CreatorsFarewell, Joseph
PublisherScholarship @ Claremont
Source SetsClaremont Colleges
Detected LanguageEnglish
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