Book Reviews
Detention in a World War I POW Camp
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A retrospective review essay on Jean Renoir's classic film, La Grande Illusion (1937).
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Latest in First World War
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A retrospective review essay on Jean Renoir's classic film, La Grande Illusion (1937).
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A review of Michael S. Neiberg's The Path to War: How the First World War Changed America (Oxford University Press 2016).
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Americans (myself included) have tended not to be attentive to the Great War. Our attention is focused instead on World War II, and we think of the Great War as "World War I" - and regard the "First" merely as wind-up to the "Second." It took me a long time to understand intellectually that the 20th century (and the 21st as well, to judge by current events in the Middle East) takes place in the shadow of the towering mountain range of the First World War. In historical terms, the First World War stands above even the Second in its influence upon the world.