Sunday WW1 Remembered...

Whenever I visit the Imperial War Museum North I take time to visit the shop, carefully browsing the shelves for books and memorabilia that highlight WW1. On my most recent visit I came across this quirky little book which is packed full of interesting snippets about the war.

World War One

A Very Peculiar History

by

Jim Pipe

Book House
2017
192 pages

I've enjoyed flipping through this book, discovering little bits and pieces about the war that I didn't already know. I especially enjoyed reading a section towards the end of the book which mentions famous ex-soldiers, and considers what the twentieth century would have been like if these men hadn't survived their experience of WW1:

Humphrey Bogart 

Bela Lugosi 

Walt Disney 

George Braque

Henry Moore 

Ernest Hemingway 

F Scott Fitzgerald 

A A Milne 

C S Lewis 

J R R Tolkien 

Walter Gropius 

Winston Churchill 

Charles De Gaulle 

Harry S Trueman 

Benito Mussolini

Adolf Hitler

and Angelo Roncalli, later Pope John XXIII

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