I saw a film today, oh boy.
The English Army had just won the war —
A crowd of people turned away,
But I just had to look,
Having read the book.
— "A Day in the Life" (Lennon–McCartney)
Okay, that was probably written with WW II in mind, but it's still an appropriate introduction to the July 2014 MobileRead Book Club discussion of
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins. What did
you think?