Every value – religious, social, political, artistic, and sexual – came to be questioned. It plucked the people from the sedate and sure world they were living in and hurled them into the searing furnace of uncertainty. The First World War changed the entire world, but the changes in Europe and Britain were swift. Though it had and still has its detractors -Siegfried Sassoon, the famous poet of the first world war was one of them-the work, autobiographical in nature, has become a classic right from 1929, the year in which it was published. Robert Graves’s ‘Goodbye to All That” is one such work. If he or she has the necessary literary skills, the work becomes a classic. But now and then, a writer emerges who looks at war as a human being, as one who has participated in it, and tries to lend breath to the human side of the war. Its sheer size and dimensions suffocate whatever human in it. Though wars are fought by humans, its canvas is hardly human. The list will include both fictional and non-fictional works. The list, as it is personal, will be idiosyncratic, and since my memory is not always reliable, I will make use of the reviews and comments available on the net, if required. I hope to do it every day or at least every other day, until I feel exhausted! I hope to continue until I reach the one-hundredth book. From today onwards, I am going to introduce to my friends the books I have read and remembered.
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