Condy’s Fluid
P.N. Furbank
- A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture by Samuel Hynes
Bodley Head, 514 pp, £20.00, October 1990, ISBN 0 370 30451 9 - Killing in Verse and Prose, and Other Essays by Paul Fussell
Bellew, 294 pp, £9.95, October 1990, ISBN 0 947792 55 4
That the ‘Great War’ is still deeply disturbing to the imagination came home to one last year, when a First World War tank stood on display in the forecourt of the British Museum. One reacted to the sight with a shudder of horror, and also an obscure resentment – at the idea, which seemed to be implied, that we must now proudly regard this appalling object as part of our ‘heritage’.
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