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The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way

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Grove Press An imprint of Grove Atlantic, an American independent publisher, who publish in the UK through Atlantic Books. My only criticism would be - not enough to knock a star off - was the quality of the photographic reproduction. The idea for this initiative goes back to a letter written by the young British officer Douglas Gillespie to his parents, shortly before his death on the Western Front. Some of his problems, Seldon now suspects, can be traced back to the psychological aftershocks of the great war.

We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.Along the way Anthony Seldon digs into the issue how WWI and its after-effects still influences our today’s families, detailing how the sometimes quite dramatic experiences his ancestors had in the Great War formed their later lives. I can't say this reflects my own experience - when I was at school, the Second World War was far more prominent and engaging as a historical subject - but Seldon's passion for the horrific events of the period comes through strongly and I learned a huge amount. Tracing the historic route of the Western Front, he traversed some of Europe's most beautiful and evocative scenery, from the Vosges, Argonne and Champagne to the haunting trenches of Arras, the Somme and Ypres.

The German author Herfried Münkler describes in his book “Der Grosse Krieg” that his grandmother’s fiancée who was killed on the Eastern front and of whom he was told as a child, was looking over his shoulder whilst he was writing). You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Yet even if it is unlikely to usher in an era of world peace, as Seldon occasionally tries to convince himself and us, there is something noble and impressive in the goal of realising Gillespie’s Western Front Way.Douglas Gillespie, somewhat oddly writing to his old school headmaster, expresses a wish that 'when peace comes, our government might combine with the French government to make one long Avenue between the lines from the Vosges to the sea.

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