The Great War in British Literature Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan First the sickness rotted the

First the sickness rotted the adults' minds

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The Great War in British Literature Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan First the sickness rotted theCritical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The Great War of 1914 18 continues to fascinate readers and writers. This book aims to explore the different ways in which this war has featured both as a genre and as a theme in British literature of the past century; it asks what actually is the literature of the Great War, and looks at different ways in which people have read this literature, reacted to it and used it.