For the 100 year anniversary of Armistice Day, we got a little more serious and read the excellent WWI memoir A Testament of Youth by feminist, pacifist, WWI nurse, poet and writer, Vera Brittain. 

Recommendations:

• Pat Barker’s brilliant Regeneration trilogy of novels (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road)
• Juliet Nicholson, The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age
• Robert Gerwarth, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
• Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
• Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcast
• The Work of the Dead by Thomas Laqueur
• War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

Also stay tuned for a mini-episode about WWI nursing. 

For December, we’re reading A Long Fatal Love Chase.