For Ever England: the Western Front and the Politics of Remembrance in Britain
For Ever England: the Western Front and the Politics of Remembrance in Britain
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永远的英格兰：西线和英国的纪念政治
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1995
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Michael Heffernan
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作者：
Michael Heffernan
英国远征军（BEF）一度由志愿者而非职业士兵或义务兵主导，这一事实强化了一种崇高的想法，但不幸的是注定要失败的青年，整个一代人中最优秀和最聪明的人被残酷地杀害了。1914年金色的夏天，英俊的年轻人--未来的诗人、画家和政治家--从全国最好的学校和大学走向他们悲惨的命运，这一形象已经成为
mass grieving in British history, unusual both in scale and because the old were left to mourn the young.5 The fact that the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was for a time dominated by volunteers, rather than professional soldiers or conscripts, intensified the idea of a supremely noble yet tragically doomed youth, the best and brightest of an entire generation cruelly cut down. The image of handsome young men the poets, painters and politicians of the future marching to their tragic destiny from the nation’s finest schools and universities in the golden summer of 1914 has become