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Ode to Bully Beef - WWII Poetry They Didn't Let You Read (Paperback, New)
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Ode to Bully Beef - WWII Poetry They Didn't Let You Read (Paperback, New)
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The Second World War (1939-45) was not greeted with the same lavish
outpouring of patriotic fervour that had attended August 1914. Any
rags of glory had long since been drowned in the mud of Flanders.
The Great War had been heralded as 'the war to end all wars';
veterans were promised 'a land fit for heroes'. Both of these vain
boasts soon began to sound hollow as depression, unemployment,
poverty and a rash of new wars followed. The sons and daughters of
those who had embarked upon their own patriotic Calvary did so
again in an altogether more sombre spirit. One significant
difference between the two conflicts is that, whilst both were
industrial wars, the Second World War was far nearer the concept of
total war. The growth of strategic air power, in its infancy in
1918, had by 1939 become a reality. In this war, even more
widespread and terrible than the last, there were to be no
civilians. Death sought new victims everywhere; British citizens
were now in the front line, there was to be no respite, no hiding
place. This is the poetry and prose of those who were there,
ordinary people caught in the terrible maelstrom of mass conflict
on a scale hitherto unimagined; this is their testimony.
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