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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern age by Modris Eksteins

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If a forensic analysis of the combat performance  of the 1st Battalion, The Blankshires Regiment, during the Battle of the Somme is at one end of the spectrum of books about the Great War then Modris Eksteins’ Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age is firmly at the opposite end. Eksteins seeks to link Igor Stravinksy’s avant…