DTIC ADA522029: The Great War: A Literary pdf

DTIC ADA522029: The Great War: A Literary

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Historian Raymond Sontag’s book about the interwar period from 1919 to 1939 has a graphic title, A Broken World (1971). In the preface to his book, Sontag tells us he borrowed his title from Gabriel Marcel’s play of 1933, Le monde casse, a play in which Marcel’s heroine seems to say we live in an age when the values that once gave meaning to life no longer animate us. Analysis of the literature produced by those who participated in the First World War and those who have carefully studied it suggests that the war was one of those historical events that affected human consciousness profoundly. The literature on World War I is vast, and selection of what is purported to be the essence of the experience risks distortion — despite one’s best intentions. The works cited in this essay were selected for no reason other than that they got it right in reflecting prewar moods, the experience of war, and expectations for life after the war

• Creator/s: Defense Technical Information Center
• Date: 1/1/1987
• Year: 1987
• Book Topics/Themes: DTIC Archive, , ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA, *ATTITUDES(PSYCHOLOGY), *LITERATURE SURVEYS, *FIRST WORLD WAR, *EMOTIONS, *MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN), *MILITARY HISTORY, *LEADERSHIP, *INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS, FATIGUE(PHYSIOLOGY), REACTION(PSYCHOLOGY), ENDURANCE(PHYSIOLOGY), HISTORIANS, UNITED KINGDOM, BOOKS, GERMANY(EAST AND WEST), VETERANS(MILITARY PERSONNEL), BATTLES, FRANCE, STRESS(PSYCHOLOGY), GROUP DYNAMICS, EUROPE, POSTWAR

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