tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629002092206577063.post159156872735601960..comments2023-07-09T18:40:14.439+10:00Comments on Fighting the Kaiser: Coburg, Brunswick and the First World War: The war that ended peacecherylghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12674487881309060774noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629002092206577063.post-57473054301978413292014-05-19T12:55:46.156+10:002014-05-19T12:55:46.156+10:00I agree, Jenny. And how many families would not ha...I agree, Jenny. And how many families would not have lived for years with the psychological scars inflicted on them by the many returned men who were haunted by the war for the rest of their lives? I can remember reading Patsy Adam Smith's work for the first time and being struck by her childhood memories of old men with only one limb or some other complaint. Then I searched my memory of my own childhood in the 1950s and realised that many of those men were still alive and still walking around on their crutches or with an empty coat sleeve pinned up at the shoulder. That legacy lasted a long time, well after the next war came along.cherylghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12674487881309060774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629002092206577063.post-18935304257932670652014-05-17T17:08:08.469+10:002014-05-17T17:08:08.469+10:00I like the sound of this book. Sounds like an inte...I like the sound of this book. Sounds like an interesting read.<br />How many women would not have been doomed to live out their lives alone, never having the opportunity to have a family of their own, forever the maiden aunt?Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01482064406292780790noreply@blogger.com