One of Ours

One of OursDescription by Willa Cather Paperback Willa Cather (1873 1947) was awarded the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for this stirring novel about World War I. She brings to life the simple Nebraska farm folk and their tranquil rural lifestyle, showing how the Great War, seemingly so far away on the Old Continent, eventually touches them all. Protagonist Claude Wheeler, a strong, healthy farm boy, is physically typical of his sturdy sod buster family and hard working

The Treaty of Versailles was not solely responsible for the catastrophic war that crippled Europe and the world just two decades later

World War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars

Morbid symptoms emerged simultaneously from the decay of World War I: progress and innovation were everywhere met with increasing racism and xenophobia

after the end of “the war to end all wars

From its causes to its consequences

Set in the closing months of World War I

As Imperial Russia and Habsburg-ruled Austria-Hungary began to succumb

the gendered experiences of the war have been seen by contemporary observers and postwar commentators and scholars as being especially significant for shaping how the war can and must be understood

by Bill Mills

the deaths of comrades

the old man—a soldier and a hero who became a prisoner and then a deserter

British agricultural policy during the First World War was held up as a success story