Witness the phenomenal success of a string of novels in the 1990s, led by Sebastian Faulks’ extraordinary Birdsong (1994) and Pat Barker’s The Regeneration Trilogy (1996), with their accompanying media spin-offs. Despite or even because of that, the ‘Great’ War captures the public imagination like never before. The numbers of those who experienced the Second World War as adults are fast diminishing, but veterans of the First World War - as military personnel or civilians, as adults or children - are now becoming very few in number. Around the turn of the millennium, the First World War has recently been as much in the public consciousness as the Second.
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