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==History==
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{{newreview
|author=Juliet Nicolson
|title=The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=As the author says in her introduction, the 'great silence' of the title was that which followed the 'incessant thunder' of the Great War. There are three crucial dates in her narrative, all specific days in three successive Novembers. The first was when the guns fell silent in 1918, the second was that of the first two-minute silence in memory of the fallen one year later, and the third was when the Unknown Soldier was lowered into silence beneath the floor in Westminster Abbey, another year on. These act as a framework around which she tells the story of the silence of grief which affected everyone in various ways during the first two years of peace.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719562562</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Mark Griffiths