The Last Great War

A groundbreaking new history of the British home front during the First World War.

Autorentext
Adrian Gregory is Lecturer in Modern History at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. His previous publications include The Silence of Memory: Armistice Day 1919-1946 (1994) and, as editor, A War to Unite Us All: Ireland and the Great War (2002).

Klappentext
A groundbreaking new history of the British home front during the First World War.


Zusammenfassung
What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 191418? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war.

Inhalt
Introduction: the war that did not end all wars; 1. Going to war; 2. Defining the enemy: atrocities and propaganda; 3. From spectatorship to participation; volunteering to compulsion; 4. Economies of sacrifice; 5. Redemption through war: religion and the languages of sacrifice; 6. The conditional sacrifices of labour; 7. The Last War: 1917-?; Conclusion.

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