I agree with him! That book grapples with a kaleidoscope of different aspects of the topic, too, including physical wounds, mental/emotional wounds, the pressures of money when your war experience has made it hard for you to work, friction between generations of veterans, the effects and pressures on the families of shell-shocked men, and on and on. So good!
An interesting difference I think between Bellona Club and "Instead of Evidence" is that Bellona Club was published in 1928, so ten years after the end of the war. It gives the book a longer scope, seeing how the war has continued to affect and even to punish people a decade later.
But "Instead of Evidence" was first published in a magazine in 1946, so it's landing directly upon the fresh end of the war and the influx of returning veterans to civilian life. So there's been no chance for hindsight just yet. I'm intrigued to see such a sharp commentary when we're barely past the event itself.
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An interesting difference I think between Bellona Club and "Instead of Evidence" is that Bellona Club was published in 1928, so ten years after the end of the war. It gives the book a longer scope, seeing how the war has continued to affect and even to punish people a decade later.
But "Instead of Evidence" was first published in a magazine in 1946, so it's landing directly upon the fresh end of the war and the influx of returning veterans to civilian life. So there's been no chance for hindsight just yet. I'm intrigued to see such a sharp commentary when we're barely past the event itself.