19 Oct 2014

WWI Book Club - Dispatches from The Front

From World War One Book Club , 4:06 pm on 19 October 2014

Literary commentators Kate Camp, Harry Ricketts, Jane Stafford and Kate Hunter look at literature from the front lines, including 'Storm of Steel', 'Testament of Youth' and 'We Shall Not Cease'. What makes the accounts of soldiers, nurses and pacifists more than mere diaries? And how did a German novel become the most influential account of fighting in World War One?

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