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Query: An Anthology of Great War Accounts

It is difficult, perhaps impossible, at this distance in time to add anything original to the Anglo-American literature on the Great War. The protagonists are dead, so primary source research is not really an option. Under the circumstances, Persico does the best he can with secondary source material. But the result, for readers even somewhat familiar with the literature, is an unoriginal book that adds little, if anything, to what one knows about that conflict. The book ends up being a kind of anthology of other people's writings on the War. The only way out of this conundrum is to write from a truly neutral perspective, or even from the perspective of the Germans. As long as the perspective remains Anglo-American, where the Germans are the bad chaps, I don't see how anything new can be said about this subject. That.... or, we have to hope that someone discovers long-lost documents of state in a proverbial attic that shows the protagonists in a whole new light!