An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

118. End of the First World War & Remembrance

November 11, 2021

Description

On the anniversary of the day the guns fell silent on the Western Front, we look at the last moments of the First World War – and how we remember them. How did Remembrance Day start? What are the...
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Books Referenced

The Gardener

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.'

Ecclesiasticus

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.