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"Now all roads lead to France; And heavy is the tread

Of the living; but the dead; Returning lightly dance"

Second of a 3-part series based on the book "Rites of Spring:  The Great War and the Birth of the  Modern Age" by Modris Ekstiens,  about the evolution of the modernist spirit in Western Europe.  This episode explores how the slaughter of WW1 and continued disruption after the war eroded the values of the Victorian age and hastened the adoption of aspects of modernism

To explore further:

• Photo of Adolph Hitler cheering start of WW1
• Exhibition of modernist war artists
• Book The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End

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Photo credit:  Paul Nash, Menin Road 1918, Imperial War Museum