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By the time one has finished reading Richard Cork's A Bitter Truth, one feels some of what the war's veterans must have felt: exhausted, relieved, matured. From Louvain to Verdun, the Judaean Hills to Ypres, Macedonia to the Marne, Cork's consistently illuminating text traverses an immense, ruined landscape. It is a long book on representations of a long war, the first act of Europe's two-act tragedy that has colored all Western thought since. Of course, even to call the First World War a tragedy is to transform its messy, stupid slaughter to the level of myth, as any number of ...

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