Dec 28, 2009

I, Claudius | What Do I Read Next?

Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) received the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named by the Modern Library as one of the twentieth century’s 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. It analyzes the effects of World War I on several major writers, including Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Wilfred Owen.

Known as one of the bitterest autobiographies ever written, Graves’s Good-Bye to All That (1929) is a scathing critique of World War I and the military and political leaders who led Great Britain during the war.

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