Detail Farewell to WW1: From memory to history   Oleh:  The Economist Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 393 no. 8662 (Dec. 2009), page 83. Topik: World War I; Harry Patch; Henry Allingham Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.58 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel OTHER wars have happened since. Some have taken millions of equally young and untried lives. Some have been fought in conditions—whether Russian snow, African jungle or Vietnamese swamp—that have been as trying and as terrible. Many, perhaps almost all, have been every bit as futile. Yet the war which Harry Patch and Henry Allingham represented, as the last two fighting British servicemen, holds a different place in the common consciousness. In both Europe and in Canada the war that was fought from August 1914 to November 1918 is the Great War, whose barbarity and senselessness were felt to set a high-water mark for all the wars that followed. (In America, the civil war holds that place; but there too the single survivor from the Great War, Frank Buckles, still campaigns for a proper memorial.) Indeed, there were meant to be no subsequent wars. This was surely the last, convulsive gasp of the practice of resolving international disputes by soaking the ground with blood. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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