2. Most of The Kindly Ones deals with the cusp and start of World War II in 1938/1939 but the long opening section is a flashback to 1914, right before the World War 1.
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3. The narrator, Nick Jenkins, is 10 in 1914, the son of an officer, and tells a visiting general about the military families in the neighborhood.pic.twitter.com/ODWArM8xlJ
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4. A few pages later, Jenkins does an inventory of the families his younger self had listed off. "The Fenwicks' father was killed; Mary Barber's father was killed; Richard Vaughan's father was killed; the Westmacott twins' father was killed."
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5. "Was the Military Policeman who used to jog across the heather killed? Perhaps his duties kept him away from the line. Did the soldier who chopped off his trigger-finger save his own life by doing so? It's an interesting question."
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The New Yorker piece triggered this, right?
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The London Review of Books piece by Perry Anderson.
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Yeah, the whole first chapter of The Kindly ones is great. Definitely one of the high points of the series.
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A Dance To The Music of Time is one of my favorites. Unforgettable.
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I am assuming you either have, or are soon to, write a major essay on the books.
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