![]() The people who commissioned those monuments-and who read those books, played those records, bought that sheet music-weren’t thinking short-term. Even places that don’t have anything commemorating the Civil War or World War II have something, in my experience, for World War I. If an American town anywhere was a thriving concern in 1917, I would bet it put up something-a plaque, a statue, a marble bench, an arch-after November 11, 1918. Most of all, it seemed that wherever I went, in every part of the country, I found monuments and memorials to the war and to the men and women who went off to fight it. No one seemed to want any of it, either eventually I amassed, for a pittance, a library of hundreds of volumes published between 19 or so, all of them long since out of print.Īnd there was still more: In flea markets and junk shops, I came across stacks of Great War–era 78s, reams of wartime sheet music, posters, pieces of uniforms, Army-issued handbooks and prayer books. ![]() So I turned to vintage bookshops, hoping that perhaps, once upon a time, more had been written and published in this country on a topic formerly known simply as the world war.
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