http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/53 Scientific Romances and Other Curiosities from the Antipodes Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:33:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/53/comment-page-1#comment-197 Garth Nix Tue, 30 May 2006 23:49:41 +0000 http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/53#comment-197 I think the most affecting and eye-opening books I have ever read about the First World War were GOODBYE TO ALL THAT by Robert Graves (autobiography) and C.E.W. Bean's OFFICIAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA IN THE WAR OF 1914-1918 (more for dipping into really, as it is 12 volumes). The latter actually contains a few paragraphs that tell how my great-great-uncle was killed leading his company in an attack that they shouldn't have been in, at the wrong place and without support. A microcosm of the whole damned tragic thing, really. I think the most affecting and eye-opening books I have ever read about the First World War were GOODBYE TO ALL THAT by Robert Graves (autobiography) and C.E.W. Bean’s OFFICIAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA IN THE WAR OF 1914-1918 (more for dipping into really, as it is 12 volumes). The latter actually contains a few paragraphs that tell how my great-great-uncle was killed leading his company in an attack that they shouldn’t have been in, at the wrong place and without support. A microcosm of the whole damned tragic thing, really.

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