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Jun 29, 2013 12:14

Something of a long shot, but does anyone have any book or movie recommendations that involve the First World War? I'm doing some work research about it for a program next winter, and I've always wanted to know more about the war. I have a halfway decent layman's knowledge, but that's it ( Read more... )

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gingerwood June 29 2013, 16:39:17 UTC

Tolkien and the Great War

http://www.amazon.com/Tolkien-Great-War-Threshold-Middle-earth/dp/0618574816

kerlin July 6 2013, 14:20:11 UTC

Oooooooh, thank you!

rolypolypony June 29 2013, 16:59:28 UTC

Hmm, the one that comes to mind is To Serve Them All My Days (book, and show). It's about a guy who had served in the war and was injured and then he becomes a teacher. Sorta post-war, but he talks about it in his classes.

It's good (both the book and the series!) and I recommend it, even if it's no help for your research!

kerlin July 6 2013, 14:21:20 UTC

Nice, thank you. :) I don't necessarily need research help atm - program is for next January and it's probably going to be just music - but I've always loved the period and am just craving more info for my own purposes. :)

rolypolypony July 7 2013, 10:48:37 UTC

Oh good! I think you'll like this, then!

bexxa June 29 2013, 18:13:35 UTC

Passchendaele - a Canadian film, by Paul Gross.

Haven't seen it myself, but it's on my list, and besides, Paul Gross! \0/

kerlin July 6 2013, 14:22:32 UTC

That looks really good, thank you!

electricland June 29 2013, 19:30:55 UTC

May be hard to find, but try Drink to Yesterday by Manning Coles. I read its sequel first and therefore found it unbearably sad because I knew what was going to happen to everyone, but it's good. Intelligence work behind enemy lines.

Quite a lot of Golden Age detective fiction is set immediately after WWI - Agatha Christie's early Tommy and Tuppence stuff for instance.

And there's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiction_based_on_World_War_I

kerlin July 6 2013, 14:23:06 UTC

Yesss, I've read all of Dorothy Sayers and of course Peter is a WWI veteran, but do you know I've never read any Agatha Christie? I should get on that.

electricland June 29 2013, 19:32:40 UTC

Oh, and poetry - obviously In Flanders Fields, which may not get as wide play in the US as it does here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields

And (I need to stop this) Dulce et Decorum Est (and other stuff by Wilfred Owen). http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html