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Originally Posted by Tomk2
I also had the same experience in school. I wanted to learn more about WW2 but was told it was "too recent" to be discussed as history. Too recent? It was at least 30 years ago when I was asking.
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I had the opposite experience. All my history classes did was bang on about WW2 with occasional references to earlier wars. No cultural histories, no WW1.
I hated history class, but later became an avid reader of both non-fiction history and historical fiction. I'm just not interested in war stories in general, though I took an interest in WW1.