CSPAN3 Lectures In History September 2, 2016
Thats interesting for us to understand why those myths fit and the reality of the experience. I want to start first by talking about how this connects to the first world overall. It is not just america that has this these myths but in the sense of how we understand the First World War to begin with and we think of the general narratives that we attach to it. One of the most common narratives was world war oi was as senseless slaughter. We get those images a lot, those are the images that i have up here for you. The idea that it is men sent to their deaths. I got two examples. One is all quiet ...