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Stridens Skönhet Och Sorg (2008)

by Peter Englund(Favorite Author)

4.21 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Bokförlaget Atlantis AB

review 1: A través de los recuerdos personales de varios protagonistas de la contienda (unos en el frente, otros en casa) el narrador construye una visión del avance de la guerra en la que el entusiasmo patriota va dejando paso al miedo y al hastío. Interesante porque la narración en primera persona se basa en los diarios y cartas de los protagonistas, que cubren un amplio espectro de la población que sufrió la guerra, de manera que son los detalles cotidianos que escapan a los grandes libros de historia los que ganan el interés del lector. No sirve como guía de la guerra, son demasiados frentes y escenarios para un lector que no conozca la cronogía de la contienda, pero sirve para dar color a quién ya tenga una idea del desarrollo básico de las campa... moreñas.
review 2: This book will stick with me for a long time. It is indeed both beautiful and sorrowful...and at turns horrific. Highly recommended if you have any interest in really getting the down and dirty first-person perspective of the first really modern war; or if you're interested in the complicated political and social maelstrom that Europe was at the time. The way that Englund has arranged it chronologically, skipping from one person's journal to another; crossing enemy lines, can take a little getting used to, but flows well pretty quickly, and really maintains both the differences in perspective, and the maturation of some of the characters' opinions and beliefs over time. My great-grandfather emigrated from Austria-Hungary around the time of the Great War, so I was interested in it partly for that reason. The one perspective I would like to have heard from was a munitions factory worker, as I know they were churning out millions of shells, etc. during those four years. less

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