Beyond Their Limits of Longing

Beyond Their Limits of LongingDescription Edited by Jennifer Orth Veillon, PhD. Paperback In America, WWI became overshadowed by WWII and Vietnam, further diluting the voices of poets, novelists, essayists, and scholars who unknowingly set a precedent for all successive war writers who appear in this collection. Those who survived WWI and wrote about it opened the space for readers and writers alike to explore the complexity both of war's physical and mental horrors and of its

representatives of combatant nations navigated a diplomatic tightrope between carrying out their patriotic duty to support war efforts and making sure their "hosts"

the women of Camp Chevy Chase face down the skepticism of the War Department

Challenging the previous scholarship that has focused on nationalism

and many others

After the war

A trench system is not just the trench itself of course

it seemed unlikely that a unit such as the Harlem Hellfighters would ever be formed

Their romantic war becomes more than that—it becomes a harsh but often thrilling new reality

” which had destroyed Napoleon’s Grande Armée a century earlier and would do the same to Hitler’s once-invincible Wehrmacht

the maintenance of discipline and morale and the lasting legacy of the First World War on the army's development

the Austro-Hungarian army lay in ruins and the course of the war seemed all but decided

With an introduction explaining the historical background