Help me decide how to depress myself next week!

[dira]

The poll options are what they are due to book availability, so making suggestions of academic/British sources will not help in the short term. Although I did get to read Jeffery Farnol's Great Britain at War, which was a collection of his contemporary accounts of the war effort as a journalist, and fascinating on multiple levels. Anyway:

Poll #12632 Doing a spot of research, because of reasons.

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Which fun and delightful book shall I read next?

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Regeneration, Pat Barker
19 (36.5%)

Home front, 1914-1918 : how Britain survived the Great War, Ian F.W. Beckett.
7 (13.5%)

Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain
7 (13.5%)

Letters from a lost generation : the First World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends
7 (13.5%)

Edward Carpenter : a life of liberty and love, Sheila Rowbotham
5 (9.6%)

A class society at war, England, 1914-1918, Bernard Waites
6 (11.5%)

Death's men : soldiers of the Great War, Denis Winter
1 (1.9%)

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[derryderrydown]

REGENERATION. Because, sure, Sassoon and Owen and First World War poets in love vaguely aware of the other's existence/stonkingly crushing on the other respectively is awesome.

However. BILLY PRIOR. BILLY FUCKING PRIOR. I love Billy Prior more than is remotely healthy and one day I'll finish the story where he ends up in 21st century Cardiff and there are Torchwood Shenanigans.

In conclusion: BILLY FUCKING PRIOR. For all your class-defying bisexual sadist hero needs.

[dira]

Yeah, Regeneration seems to be what's next. *g*

I ... may have more class-defying bisexual sadist hero needs than I had previously surmised, so hooray for Billy Prior.