Extension

The Art of War: Literature and Art after World War I

Extending Your Knowledge

Congratulations! You've finished your webquest! I hope that you have a better sense of how an author's life experience can shape the work he or she produces. To extend your knowledge further, you might look at how contemporary artists view the war in Iraq -- something that you don't need to research in a history book to know about. Try listening to Richard Thompson's song "'dad's gonna kill me" or Bruce Cockburn's "This is Baghdad" for different perspectives on the war.

Interested in further reading? These are some of the resources I used to build this lesson.

Resource List:

Bagget, Blaine and Winter, J.M., The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century. New York: Penguin, 1996.

Duffy, Michael. "Weapons of War: Poison Gas." First World War.Com. Accessed 2/12/09. <http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/gas.htm Last update: Jan 2009

Keegan, John. The Face of Battle. New York: Viking, 1986.

Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: Macmillian, 1962.

Winter, J.M. The Experience of World War I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.