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Also, not all troops felt that they\'re doing something worthwhile. There were huge mutinies among the French troops in 1917. Most of these soldiers didn\'t reject the war as a whole, but they were certainly sick of the way it was fought.

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Also, not all troops felt that they\\\'re doing something worthwhile. The books you list are all about Britain; well, the British were on the winning side, and they suffered smaller casualties than the French, the Russians or the Germans. There were huge mutinies among the French troops in 1917. Most of these soldiers didn\\\'t reject the war as a whole, but they were certainly sick of the way it was fought. And in Russia, of course, the war was the trigger for the revolution.

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[004] Aquila89

7th Jul '12 at 10:22:02 AM

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I\'m afraid these books are hard to access in Hungary where I live. As for first-hand accounts, I\'ve read my great-grandfather\'s war diary, who served first on the Eastern Front, then in the Italian Campaign.It indeed gives a very different account on the war than Remarque\'s novel; he didn\'t engage in direct combat, he mostly served in patrols, and diseases caused him more suffering than the enemy. He doesn\'t write much about how he felt about the war, but it seems to me that it didn\'t affect him all that much.

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I\\\'m afraid these books are hard to access in Hungary where I live. As for first-hand accounts, I\\\'ve read my great-grandfather\\\'s war diary, who served first on the Eastern Front, then in the Italian Campaign. It indeed gives a very different account on the war than Remarque\\\'s novel; he didn\\\'t engage in direct combat, he mostly served in patrols, and diseases caused him more suffering than the enemy. He doesn\\\'t write much about how he felt about the war, but it seems to me that it didn\\\'t affect him all that much.

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7th Jul '12 at 10:21:44 AM

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7th Jul '12 at 10:21:33 AM

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7th Jul '12 at 10:21:12 AM

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There\'s no such thing as a 100% unbiased reportage, and unlike a historian, a novelist probably doesn\'t even sees this as an ideal. Nevertheless, Remarque\'s novel resonated with many people who lived through the war; it was a huge bestseller when it first came out in 1929.

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There\\\'s no such thing as a 100% unbiased reportage, and unlike a historian, a novelist probably doesn\\\'t even see this as an ideal. Nevertheless, Remarque\\\'s novel resonated with many people who lived through the war; it was a huge bestseller when it first came out in 1929.

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