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War in Literature: World War
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Two important ranges of issues that had initially (in pre-war Soviet literature) been tabooed stand out in Russian literature about the war. The first may be called anthropological, and the second social. The first includes, above all, uncontrollable and unpredictable feelings: fear; physical and psychological discomfort (pain, hunger, and cold); the feeling of a collapse of one's entire pre-war worldview; and aggressive manifestations of the "bestial" side of human beings under extreme conditions (which were as frequent as heroic behaviour). A special anthropology of war ... emerges out of a new sense of the body – at war or on the home front, the human body becomes painful and wearisome, while at the same time it may be perceived as part of a single suffering collective body.
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This article presents information on the book "Financial Chapters of the War," by Alexander Dana Noyes. In this book, six of the twelve chapters cover the first seventeen months of the period of war. The description of the developments during the first month of the war and the remarkable measures of relief resorted to at London to prevent utter collapse of credit make highly interesting reading. Nearly every prediction as to the specific results of the conflict went astray, and the world now knows how foolish it was to suppose that economic exhaustion would force early abandonment of the struggle.
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Princes of the trenches : narrating the German experience of the First World War / Ann P. Linder. Linder, Ann P., 1947- Columbia, SC, USA : Camden House, c1996. 205 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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