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Granted, I'm a civvie puke, but I have my students read (sections of) these two books for my section on WW1: Under Fire by Henri Barbusse If you want to get an idea of the psychologically crushing weight of fighting an industrialized war, look no further than Under Fire. It is THE WW1 anti-war novel, published during the war after Barbusse was discharged for TB in 1915/1916. Great, great stuff. Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger Basically this is the antidote to Under Fire, and the anti-All Quiet on the Western Front. Compared to Junger, who served on the front lines from 1914-1918 (and arguably one of the first storm troopers), Remarque is a cry-baby bitch who spent the war digging trenches and maybe two weeks on the front line in total. Described as psychopathically brave, Junger's memoirs of the war are a unique perspective to say the least. Spoiler alert: despite all of Junger's statements on war being a means of purging weakness from the body, surprisingly he's not much of a nazi supporter during WW2, to the point that Hitler stashes him away in Paris as a cultural attache since he can't kill him outright. BlueDiablo fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Sep 6, 2016 |
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