An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
118. End of the First World War & Remembrance
November 11, 2021
Description
Books Referenced
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Context:
Tom reads an excerpt from this short story and both hosts discuss it extensively as a powerful work about grief following World War I. Tom mentions he reads it every November 11th and recommends it to listeners, saying it's available online and is 'one of the great short stories ever written.'
Author: Ben Sira (attributed)
Context:
Referenced as the biblical source from which Kipling took the inscription 'their names liveth forevermore' that appears on the Stone of Remembrance in war cemeteries.