Notes and links on literature related to World War 1
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The aftermath for those who returned - a really star site that you will find hard to leave
WW1 Literature for Young Adults
Vimy Ridge virtual reality tour
A Victory Worse than Defeat? - analysis of the outcome of the war
Propaganda images used to further recruitment - interactive
WW1 poetry - essential online lessons
Wilfred Owen - interactive introduction to Dulce et Decorum Est
War Girls - a poem by Jessie Pope - with notes
interactive site on the poem
Base Details
Spartacus site - comprehensive coverage of the literature, journalism, etc.
WW1 poetry digital archive (link to Oxford University award-winning site)
here
My notes on changing attitudes to the war in poetry of the time.
Read a soldier's letters home and to his sweetheart right through the conflict.
Interesting set of resources, especially on women in the war
2007 Observer article on 109 year old Harry Patch, sole living survivor of Passchendaele
Notes for Autumn series of Literary Lectures
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