A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918

A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918Description by Joseph Loconte Paperback The First World War laid waste to a continent and permanently altered the political and religious landscape of the West. For a generation of men and women, it brought the end of innocenceand the end of faith. Yet for J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, the Great War deepened their spiritual quest. Both men served as soldiers on the Western Front, survived the trenches, and used the experience of that conflict to

was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I

and a gazetteer with detailed information about many of the placed that were bombed

but the war challenged their notions of citizenship

and terrifying new ideologies arose from the wreckage of past belief

Ian Densford's graphic watercolors paired with a spattering of onomatopoeic utterings create an unforgiving tale of the "war to end all wars

brings you the riveting day-by-day account of the last fourteen days of the Russian Imperial family

Corporal Alvin York

Italy seized Libya

and Lieutenant Billy Prior

This volume includes a timeline

by Ford Madox Ford

and North Seas as well as the Atlantic