F. Scott Fitzgerald on The Great War

Armistice Day post

11.11 is Armistice Day, the strange celebration of the end of the Great War. At the time, most didn’t think, like the famous Marshal Foch, that they were only signing a 20-year armistice; nor perhaps that empires would soon collapse… In Tender is the night, Fitzgerald has his protagonist, Dick Diver, enthuse about what it took to fight that war:

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