World War 1 - getting beyond the poetry
We are likely to be familiar with the poetry of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sasson and Rupert Brooke. To limit the literature of World War 1 to these writers, however, does not tell the whole story. In this article Andrew Green introduces two alternative perspectives, through the wartime diary of Thomas Livingstone and a work of literary non-fiction by Ernst Junger, a German infantry officer.