The docu-drama 37 Days, which I mentioned favourably last week, became very compelling in last Friday's episode. Well worth watching on SBS on Demand if you missed it.
Via Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog, which is always brimming with great links, I caught up with two great pieces on the War over the weekend. First, this article from the Guardian which I had overlooked, about the extraordinary and tragic circumstances in which many of the soldiers were executed for desertion. It makes it very easy to understand the psychic scars it must have left on those who did come back from the war.
The other one was from the New Statesman, by Simon Heffer, looks at the history of the historians' attempts to analyse the causes of the war. A good read.
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