No, the books mentioned were written by people who'd lived through WWI, rather than being books about the time. ('No' to Private Peaceful, that is.) The books listed in the acknowledgments are two by Vera Brittain, Enid Bagnold's A Diary Without Dates, Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That, Captain Dunn's The War the Infantry Knew and A Brief Jolly Charge, the diaries of Henry Peerless, ed. by Edward Fenton. In the Author's Note at the end he gives a bit about who/what's made up and the name of the hill on which Tom's (real) Brigade saw action and the name Robert Graves gave in Goodbye to All That.
I do tend to be particularly interested in books describing the experience of women in service of various types during the two wars, probably because of seeing and then reading Testament of Youth at an impressionable age. (Well, a young and impressionable age...)
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Date: 2008-04-03 03:54 pm (UTC)I do tend to be particularly interested in books describing the experience of women in service of various types during the two wars, probably because of seeing and then reading Testament of Youth at an impressionable age. (Well, a young and impressionable age...)