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S'està carregant… The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and Historyde Brian Bond
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. A study of representations (mostly, according to the author, misrepresentations) of World War I in British literature, film, television, stage, and history. Concludes with a review recent military historiography. Predicts future areas of research in the military history of World War I. Very interesting. ( ) 4075. The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History, by Brian Bond (19 Sep 2005) This is a 2002 book published in England of lectures the author gave on this subject. His thesis is that the negative treatment often given British endeavor on the Western Front is undeserved and that historians now are permitting that endeavor to be put in perspective. I have often been less condemnatory of Haig than some are, so I appreciated the author's thesis. But the book is so condensed, so committed to its viewpoint, that it was not overly appreciated by me. I was struck by a comment near the end of the book: "Perhaps, however, it is a mark of a civilized liberal society that it hugs and cherishes its defeats, dwells obsessively on the worst combat conditions and on casualties, and cannot forgive Field Marshal Haig for being victorious." Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Britain's outstanding military achievement in the First World War has been eclipsed by literary myths. Why has the Army's role on the Western Front been so seriously misrepresented? This 2002 book shows how myths have become deeply rooted, particularly in the inter-war period, in the 1960s, and in the 1990s. The outstanding 'anti-war' influences have been 'war poets', subalterns' trench memoirs, the book and film of All Quiet on the Western Front, and the play Journey's End. For a new generation in the 1960s the play and film of Oh What a Lovely War had a dramatic effect, while more recently Blackadder has been dominant. Until more recently, historians had either reinforced the myths, or had failed to counter them. This book follows the intense controversy from 1918 to the present, and concludes that historians are at last permitting the First World War to be placed in proper perspective. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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