from etxgardener

Written by the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West, The Great Silence chronicles the devastating aftermath of World War I on the citizens of Britain. Too little is studied about this brutal (and possibly senseless) war whose peace treaty sowed the seeds of the great conflagration that occurred t...

from Maurice_Frontz

A collection of personal snapshots from the two years between Armistice Day and the Burial of the Unknown Soldier, anchored in the center by the two-minute Great Silence observed in all of Great Britain on Armistice Day 1919. Ms. Nicolson writes "history from below" in the sense that this is not ...

from JaneSteen

Where I got the book: bought retail with a Borders gift card, in a huge rush after the bankruptcy was announced. It had been on my TBR list for a while. The Great Silence is a snapshot of Britain just after World War I. It covers the period from when the guns fell silent on November 11, 1918, to ...

from Schmerguls

4913. The Great Silence Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age, by Juliet Nicolson (read 8 Apr 2012) This portrait of British social doings during the two years from Nov 11, 1918, to Nov. 11, 1920, is extremely fascinating reading even if, at times, I wondered ...

from Cascadian

As we approach the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One, I think it's pretty much indisputable now that it, and not the second war that followed, was the watershed event of the bloody and unmourned twentieth century. Just as significant as -- and ultimately longer-lasting than -- the p...