Wilfred owen, written as it was ongoing. Wilfred himself was a junior officer in the british army in the First World War. They are often reprinted words and they show us something about the brutality of war and the experience of war on the western front. They also show us something political. In an argument here, especially in the last part where he talks about men dying for nations, for national causes. The stakes of this one mans death from gas become very high indeed in Wilfred Owens eyes. This gives us a sense of what nations ask men to do in war. To complicate this, i want to give you a quote from another war writer, a patriotic novelist who fought on the western front. His name was ian hague. He was reflecting in the 1930s about war books. Specifically about war books that show us the sortedness of the great war in british memory. He writes, for the last 10 years, weve been submerged by a flood of socalled war books which depict the men who fought as brutes and beasts, as living
At the same time. Within about 2030 seconds, i can have access to the inventories about 40,000 book dealers worldwide and i can usually have an answer for a customer while theyre still on the phone because independent book sellers create their own selection. You will have a different selection in each different store. Barnsbarnes noble stores are created by someone at the office. If you walk into a barnes noble in green bay or San Francisco or new york, if that matter, you will find the same collection of books. Thats the difference between us and the bigbuy stores. The difference between us and amazon is that amazon has everything. What we have that amazon doesnt have is life human beings and we have opinions and we have books that we like, and we tend to recognize tend to recommend to our regular customers whose tastes we get to know books we think they will like, theres a lot of difference between that, believe me, amazon really complicated the Book Business a lot more and it will s
Morning for people at Discovery Bay waking up without heat. Our reporter is there wi it is cold here in Discovery Bay. My news app shows that the temperatures are in the midtoupper 30s right now. The hope is that people will get their gas turned on as soon as possible. Pg e is blaming this outage on the cold. It was a very cold weekend. Temperatures were in the 30s the surge in use by customers over the weekend may have overwhelm the system. Pg e crews are going doortodoor to conduct pilot light toasts. Two remain aing centers were set up for 6,200 residents gas but most people are trying to make the bet of it. Will, my neighbor on that side, she doesnt, and she is elderly so i told her, you know, get cozy, stay warm, use your blankets and i dont think she has been outside today. Pg e has tips for people row gas did not use any method that could release Carbon Monoxide like a barbecue or propane, and make sure the fireplace flue is open, and some heard that the service could be restore
Traffic is stacking to the Altamont Pass into livermore and if you can, nice morning to take mass transit and everyone is running on time. Thank you, moving on to preeing news, a China Airlines flight from San Francisco to tie pay has a return to sfo for a medical emergency. Officials say a passenger became sick on the flight after take off and china flight 3 returned to sfo just before 3 00 a. M. The passenger was taken to the hop and the rest of the passengers stayed on board. The flight took off again and should arrive in taiwan four hours late. Breaking news from the east bay fire crews are at the scene of a twoalarm fire that left two people dead in east oakland. The fire started after 1 00 a. M. Near 62nd avenue. Crews pulled out a victim from a unit where though believe the fire started. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A woman also died in the fire. Investigators are trying to figure how this fire starts. In newark a family is homeless after this fire. A neighbor took pictu
Airlines flight. On wednesday a boeing 737 had landing gear issue and had to circle for hours to burn off fuel. That plane also touched down safely and the passengers eventually made it on to their final destinations. Now, we were not able to talk to any of the passengers aboard today residents flight because, as todays flight because they were shuttled directly from the plane to a waiting plane the plane with the mechanical issues was taken out of service, according to Southwest Airlines the passengers are already on their way to denver. They expect to be about three hours late to denver. Reporting live at Oakland International airport, sergio quintana, abc7~news. Thank you. And stay with abc7~news for any breaking updates. And follow us on twitter, abc7 news. Warmer weather is on the way, but only after another frigid night ahead. We have seen a chilly weekend in the bay area that included some record lows last night. Taking a live look from the emeryville cam its cold but nowhere ne