Alice Winn

Quotes

• “Usually, when you read war literature, they’re trying to present what they went through to someone who wasn’t there.”
• “In the UK world war one is a selling point; in the US it's more an obstacle. In the UK we live in the fossilised wreckage of world war one; a lot of people see it as a turning point for the empire and it looms larger in the consciousness.”
• “I find it interesting that most of the was written by officers. The same is not true in France and Germany. I can’t imagine that British privates wrote less — I wonder if they were simply published less? The best piece of writing I read from the perspective of a British private was ’ , but it is abstract and more beautiful than useful, from a research perspective.”

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