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The EssayMinds at War: Series 1Episodes

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  1. The Grieving Parents

    10/10Ruth Padel reflects on German artist Kathe Kollwitz's memorial for her youngest son, Peter

  2. The Broken Wing

    9/10Santanu Das discusses the Indian poet Sarojini Naidu's 1917 collection The Broken Wing.

  3. Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

    8/10BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet discusses Edith Wharton's reportage from wartime France.

  4. Battleship Potemkin

    7/10Ian Christie discusses Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin as a response to World War I.

  5. Le Feu

    6/10Heather Jones on Henri Barbusse's Le Feu, the first explicit account of WWI conditions.

  6. Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

    5/10Michal Shapira explores Sigmund Freud's Thoughts for the Times on War and Death.

  7. The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science

    4/10Prof David Edgerton discusses the 1916 Memorandum on the Neglect of Science.

  8. Der Krieg

    3/10Cartoonist Martin Rowson on Otto Dix's Der Krieg, a cycle of prints of wartime experience.

  9. Non-Combatants and Others

    2/10Author Sara LeFanu reflects on Rose Macaulay's 1916 novel Non-Combatants and Others.

  10. Paths of Glory

    1/10BBC correspondent Allan Little reflects on CRW Nevinson's 1917 painting Paths of Glory.