Characters from The Great War and Modern Memory

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Sir Douglas Haig - This Scot character attended Clifton College, was very religious, and was the commander of the British forces in World War I.

General Sir George Plumer - This character is a general in the British army and is seen as the intellectual hero of the war for the British forces because this character brought imagination into their plan, and other armies were unable to anticipate their moves.

Edmund Blunden - This child of a London schoolmaster is an author who attended Oxford and who Fussell uses to show examples and...
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