![]() ![]() America, which came into the war rather late and sustained much lighter casualties, could afford the luxury of a "lost generation" in the 1920s. ![]() This was apparently fairly common.Īnd so this tragic event sank into the bones of the British memory. Joseph Losey's film "King and Country" shows us Tom Courtenay as the lone survivor of his original unit every other man had been killed, and many of their replacements had died as well. Something like 90 per cent of the field officers were killed on some fronts. Like most people, I know World War I at second or third hand, through such sources as Robert Graves' "Goodbye to All That." The most dramatic point Graves makes is that the war almost literally exterminated the generation that would have ruled Britain in the 1930s and 1940s. ![]()
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