World War I poet Sassoon lambasts those who think that war memorials pay off the debt to those who gave their lives.
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A War Hero Who Derided Memorials
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Vets in WWI Documentary Do Not Age
Tuesday Last night Julia and I watched Peter Jackson’s extraordinary documentary about World War I in which he applied filmmaker’s magic to archival footage to create a sense of immediacy. By brightening dark shots and darkening overexposed ones, erasing scratches, evening out movement (World War I film was shot with hand-cranked cameras), turning long-shots into […]
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Poetry Changed during World War I
The horrors of World War I created some great poetry. But not in its early days.
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