Men at Arms | Social Concerns
The impact of World War II upon English society is both a contextual feature and an overtly expressed concern of Men at Arms. The background of the novel is a constantly changing panorama of people in motion, as city residents flee to the country, coastal dwellers are evacuated inland, and military men are shifted from training areas to potential battlegrounds. In the midst of this pattern of changing scenes, which alternates moments of complete chaos with long periods of anxious inactivity, it seems perfectly natural for the book's characters to speculate about the ultimate...
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