Matt McKeon
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The Art of Survival by Libby Murphy
This is a exploration, centered but not exclusively on the French Army, of how common soldiers and their culture and societies understood what they were experiencing in World War I.
The first chapter and introduction were horribly written, the worse kind of academese. I was shaken to my core. I have only so many years left have in this life. Should I spend it reading this crap? Or has the internet age permanently rotted my ability to focus for more then a few minutes?
I stuck with it, and suddenly it got good.
This is a exploration, centered but not exclusively on the French Army, of how common soldiers and their culture and societies understood what they were experiencing in World War I.
The first chapter and introduction were horribly written, the worse kind of academese. I was shaken to my core. I have only so many years left have in this life. Should I spend it reading this crap? Or has the internet age permanently rotted my ability to focus for more then a few minutes?
I stuck with it, and suddenly it got good.