1. One thing Powell's A Dance To the Music of Time does very well is show the shadow of the First World War cast over the subsequent decades. Particularly worth reading is volume 6, The Kindly Ones (1962).
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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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It's a work I've long eyed over but get intimidated by the bulkiness. Is it better/worse/the same as the USA trilogy by Dos Passos?
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Better written I'd say, although dealing with a narrower class (the upper-middle class and nobility). But very funny and readable.
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