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A Boys’ Own Forgotten Front of World War I
Elizabeth Stice reviews Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One by Nick Higham (Bloomsbury, 2025)
The many men, so beautiful!/ And they all dead did lie:/ And a thousand thousand slimy things/Lived on; and so did I.
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany The War by Robert Cowley (Random House, 2025)
Starving Dreamlessly or Sensemaking on the Western Front?
Elizabeth Stice reviews Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front by Alex Mayhew (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
The many men, so beautiful!/ And they all dead did lie:/ And a thousand thousand slimy things/Lived on; and so did I.
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany The War by Robert Cowley (Random House, 2025)
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