![]() His first day at training, he met Will Bancroft and the two of them became closest friends. He lied about his age in order to join up and he spent months training and then living the horrors of trench warfare. ![]() ![]() Although set after the end of the war, once you've read this affecting novel by John Boyne, World War I and its cost will be forever etched in your consciousness in ways you'd never predict. For whatever reason, it seems to be one of those wars that don't enter into our thoughts despite the gruesomeness and appallingly high casualty count of its combination of modern weapons and trench warfare. Maybe because the generation that fought in it has been gone for so long now. Maybe because it didn't have anything so perfectly evil like the Holocaust towards which to point. Maybe because it was overshadowed so quickly by the Second World War. ![]() For some reason World War I is not high in our collective consciousness here in the US. But ask those same people about World War I and you'll get far fewer bits of information. Ask anyone and they can tell you all sorts of facts about World War II. ![]()
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