“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.”