Alice Winn

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“I find it interesting that most of the {{w|British literature#First World War|British First World War literature}} was written by officers. The same is not true in France and Germany. I can’t imagine that British privates wrote less — I wonder if they were simply published less? The best piece of writing I read from the perspective of a British private was {{w|David Jones (painter)|David Jones}}’ {{w|In Parenthesis}}, but it is abstract and more beautiful than useful, from a research perspective.”

“In the UK world war one is a selling point; in the US it's more an obstacle. In the UK we live in the fossilised wreckage of world war one; a lot of people see it as a turning point for the empire and it looms larger in the consciousness.”

“Usually, when you read war literature, they’re trying to present what they went through to someone who wasn’t there.”