Rating:  Summary: DONT BUY THIS BOOK Review: The only reason I gave this book one star was that I couldn;t give it zero. This book was used as a classroom book for my college history on World War I. The instructure was the only person who enjoyed this piece of filth. I have never read a more collective amount of trash in my entire life. Not a single person in my class enjoyed the book, we were glad to resell it back to the college for a shallow 2.50 cents.
Rating:  Summary: Greatest book on world War One writing Review: This is a memorable book, and I think is the best book on the literature that came out of World War One. Fussell discusses interstingly the classic memoirists: Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, adn Edmund Blunden. I found this to be an excellent book, jam-packed with good information and aptly-chosen illustrations.
Rating:  Summary: The best non-fiction I have read in five years. Review: This is a very very good, if not 'great' book for anyone who has been moved by the ultimate tragedies of war, the loathsome incompetances of the military, the worst aspects of 'the class system' as it was in the first part of the century and, most importantly, the fine literature and poetry of the British* and their allies about and from the war to end all wars.* It would be more than just interesting to have the same treatment from a German author/compiler.
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