βThe experiences could be understood only as being of such extremity that they stood beyond written words; it was not a failure of language, but a view that, for the individual, language, particularly written words, and the enormity of the experience were not matched.β First World War expert Julian
Words and The First World War
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2017
- Category
- Fiction
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