Briffault's Passchendaele: Arts, Empathy, and the First World War

Briffault’s Passchendaele surveys the First World War from the perspective of the Modernist artists and writers caught up in its madness. The scene is observed by a battlefield medical officer turned novelist, and considered from the vantage point of our own times. Various genres of sympathy illuminate the wide range of transformations the war imposed on our Modern era.