These questions are among those addressed by the poetry, short stories, essays, newspaper articles and novel excerpts of this anthology. Why did the English Parliament in 1998 consider posthumous pardons for the 303 World War I soldiers who were shot at dawn for cowardice and desertion – and why was this pardon not given? Why did a war-torn Britain make a cult of male comradeship while at the same time punishing male homosexuality as a criminal offense? How could the gap between the Home Front and the real frontline be bridged? What roles are assigned to the women behind the lines? Why did shellshocked become an important new word in the English language? How did they deal with the unexpected realities of the first full-scale industrialized war? In the course of four years, the British Empire sent almost 9 million of its young men into the mud and horror of the First World War. Til brug i engelskundervisningen: ‘Soldiers Don’t Go Mad’, makes it possible to study The Great War from a great variety of literary angles, and at levels from the intermediate to the most advanced.
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