A Concise History of Modern Europe by David S. Mason

Author:David S. Mason [Mason, David S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2014-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

BOX 9.1. A Sweet and Honorable Death

At the outbreak of World War I, most people had a romantic image of warfare, and most literary works on warfare romanticized the glory, honor, and adventure of war. In Britain, for example, many schoolboys knew the line from the Latin poet Horace, Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (It is sweet and honorable to die for your country). These notions were shattered by the grisly massacres and huge casualties of World War I, and this new realism was reflected in poems, novels, and stories that emerged from that war. Erich Maria Remarque, for example, after serving in the German army and being badly wounded, depicted the brutal, grim, and demoralizing experiences of ordinary soldiers in his All Quiet on the Western Front.

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