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Landscape is complex and slippery, a concept rather than a single place in historical time, a cultural image as well as a physical location. Landscapes possess memory-making and memory-evoking qualities that connect to our cultural, emotional, and spiritual lives, and so can serve as sensuous metaphors of identity. The landscapes possess arguably the most intense and enduring legacies of pain, suffering, redemption, sacrifice, and in a world of materiality, of broken objects large and small. This chapter explores modern conflict landscapes from the perspective of the First World War as the event which created and perpetuated the idea and the reality of such places, so different in intensity and scale to the landscapes of pre-twentieth-century conflict. Military actions along the Western Front took place in largely medieval landscapes, finely balanced between architectural splendour and rural features. |
