What Is Remembered: The Long View

Lorna Finlayson

There is no sense in which my great-uncle, who died at the Somme along with hundreds of thousands of others, gave his life for my freedom. He was cannon fodder in a needless imperial war which created fertile conditions for the rise of totalitarian regimes that killed millions, and which millions more would lay down their lives to defeat.

An Exercise in Forgetting
London Review of Books

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13.04.2013