Saturday, October 01, 2005

The Essential First World War WebSite

I have linked to Break of Day in the Trenches: a work of bright bloggy glory from English academic Esther MacCallum-Stewart at the University of Sussex.
It has as much and more than one needs for a very good understanding of the Great War: I will be linking to specific sections from it, with comment, over the term (crediting the original in each instance.)
I note happily, for instance, that in a press release on her scholarship, Dr. MacCallum-Stewart supports our incorporation of Blackadder Goes Forth as a very valuable and accurate evocation of the First World War soldiery:

Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder offers a more accurate social view of the soldier's experience of Wrld War One than poets such as Wilfred Owen, according to new research.

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