A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is another.
Erich Maria Remarque’s semi-autobiographical All Quiet on the Western Front is a classic must-read. Yet, there are a number of works from the Great War that stand out. A person today could spend a lifetime poring over nothing but memoirs from the period and never hope to read all of them. Collectively, this lost generation produced a rich and vivid, historical record of life and death in the trenches. Later still, survivors of the war would use the pen to come to terms with the horrors they suffered. And understandably, those who faced the blunt terror of history’s first ‘modern conflict’ chronicled their experiences in letters, diaries and journals. The populations from which Great Britain, Germany and France recruited their armies was more literate than any that had come before. That’s because Europe in 1914 was home to one of the first generations brought up in the era of mass education. And no event up to that point left behind such a profound literary footprint. It extinguished the lives of millions, toppled empires and changed the world in ways we’re still living with a century later. THE GREAT WAR was conflict like no other in history.
Yet, there are a number of works from the Great War that stand out.” (Image source: WikiCommons) “A person could spend a lifetime poring over nothing but memoirs from the period and never hope to read all of them. We asked one Great War blogger to compile a list of iconic titles from the era. First-hand accounts of the First World War became their own literary genre in the years following the 1918 Armistice.
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