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Mark Bostridge
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markk
markk rated it 8 years ago
I have a few pet peeves when it comes to history, but my biggest by far is the question of why the world did not stop Adolf Hitler before he plunged Europe into war. I find it a frustrating question on a number of levels. At its most basic, it's an abuse of hindsight, expecting people in the 1930s t...
helenliz
helenliz rated it 14 years ago
This is an eyeopening book. An autobiography of a woman born just prior to the turn of the 20th C, describing her experiences through WW1 until 1925. It is, as might be expected, massive in scope, describing how the war changed things on both a large and small scale. Individually, she lost the boys/...
Melody Murray's Books
Melody Murray's Books rated it 14 years ago
I found this book alternately grueling and tedious, but hugely compelling in spite of that. It's a first-hand description of WWI by a young, sheltered, brilliant woman who goes into nursing and is savagely broken upon the rack of war. After the war, she becomes more fiercely feminist than before, an...
Jessicathecat
Jessicathecat rated it 25 years ago
This is an important book. It is about the effects on one woman, Vera Brittain, of the carnage, misery, heartbreak and loss of the "Great War."She loses so much that is not recoverable and still manages to survive although the world is completely changed. Start this one when you have time to plow st...
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