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The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
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Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.
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If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.
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Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.
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Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving.... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.
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Born:
March 22, 1924
Died:
May 23, 2012
(aged 88)
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