The Essay Minds at War: Series 1 Episodes Available now
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The Grieving Parents
10/10 Ruth Padel reflects on German artist Kathe Kollwitz's memorial for her youngest son, Peter
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The Broken Wing
9/10 Santanu Das discusses the Indian poet Sarojini Naidu's 1917 collection The Broken Wing.
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Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
8/10 大象传媒 correspondent Lyse Doucet discusses Edith Wharton's reportage from wartime France.
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Battleship Potemkin
7/10 Ian Christie discusses Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin as a response to World War I.
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Le Feu
6/10 Heather Jones on Henri Barbusse's Le Feu, the first explicit account of WWI conditions.
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Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
5/10 Michal Shapira explores Sigmund Freud's Thoughts for the Times on War and Death.
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The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science
4/10 Prof David Edgerton discusses the 1916 Memorandum on the Neglect of Science.
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Der Krieg
3/10 Cartoonist Martin Rowson on Otto Dix's Der Krieg, a cycle of prints of wartime experience.
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Non-Combatants and Others
2/10 Author Sara LeFanu reflects on Rose Macaulay's 1916 novel Non-Combatants and Others.
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Paths of Glory
1/10 大象传媒 correspondent Allan Little reflects on CRW Nevinson's 1917 painting Paths of Glory.