When German gunners flattened the city of Ypres in World War I, they destroyed, along with thousands of innocent lives, the famous Cloth Hall, a landmark of medieval Flemish architecture. That ruined masterpiece, as Paul Fussell wrote in "The Great War and Modern Memory," served as an "eloquent emblem of what happens when war collides with art." That same collision is central to Pat Barker's ...
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