Re:H. G. Wells reviews "Metropolis" (1927)
by shakna on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:50PM
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> does anyone know if he fought in the Great War?
I don't believe he did, though he certainly saw it up close and personal.
Wells wrote extensively during WWI, publishing many articles and pieces about what he called a necessary evil, as well as writing condolence letters to soldiers.
To write "War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War", he was invited to tour the French and Italian fronts, but initially resisted the idea (before finally relenting):
> For my own part I did not want to go. I evaded a suggestion that I should go in 1915. I travel badly, I spread French and Italian with incredible atrocity, and am extreme Pacifist. I hate soldiering. And also I did not want to write anything "under instruction"
I don't believe he did, though he certainly saw it up close and personal.
Wells wrote extensively during WWI, publishing many articles and pieces about what he called a necessary evil, as well as writing condolence letters to soldiers.
To write "War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War", he was invited to tour the French and Italian fronts, but initially resisted the idea (before finally relenting):
> For my own part I did not want to go. I evaded a suggestion that I should go in 1915. I travel badly, I spread French and Italian with incredible atrocity, and am extreme Pacifist. I hate soldiering. And also I did not want to write anything "under instruction"