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Men in Battle
Gregory, Horace | July 16, 1930 issue

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The article critically appraises several books, "Generals Die in Bed," by Charles Yale Harrison; "Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War," edited by C.B. Purdon; "Her Privates We" and "Captured," by Ferdinand Huszti Horvath. Scenes of horror and destruction do not necessarily present war as an unattractive experience. Looking back over die present generation of war books, one finds that war has been unconsciously glorified. The personal record of any one man recreating a story of conflict against the social machinery of modern warfare is a melodramatic spectacle of extraordinary power. From a strictly personal point of view the experience of war is almost never without its elements of heroism.

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BOOKS & reading; GENERALS Die in Bed (Book); EVERYMAN at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War (Book); HER Privates We (Book); CAPTURED (Book); HARRISON, Charles Yale; PURDON, C. B.
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