The Road to Armageddon: The Martial Spirit in English Popular Literature, 1870-1914

by Cecil D. Eby

The Lost Generation has held the imagination of those who succeeded them, partly because the idea that modern war could be romantic, generous, and noble died with the casualties of that war. From this remove, it seems almost perverse that Britons, Germans, and Frenchmen of every social class eagerly rushed to the fields of Flanders and to misery and death. In The Road to Armageddon Cecil Eby shows how the widely admired writers of English popular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822307758
• ISBN13: 9780822307754
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"