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A part of history : aspects of the British experience of the First World War / introduced by Michael Howard.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Historiography.
- Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 229 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2008.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Military Revisionism: The Case of the British Army on the Western Front / Gary Sheffield 1
- Chapter 2 The British Tommy / Malcolm Brown 8
- Chapter 3 Tommyrot: The Shot at Dawn Campaign and First World War Revisionism / Julian Putkowski 17
- Chapter 4 Press, Propaganda and Public Perceptions / Stephen Badsey 27
- Chapter 5 Gallipoli: A Stone Unturned / Peter Hart 36
- Chapter 6 Writing about Jutland: Historiography and Hysteria / Nick Hewitt 44
- Chapter 7 The British Army on the Somme: July-November 1916 / Trevor Wilson 52
- Chapter 8 India and the First World War / Santanu Das 63
- Chapter 9 Religion and the Great War / Michael Burleigh 74
- Chapter 10 Forgotten Film-Makers: Britain's Official Wartime Film Propaganda / Nicholas Reeves 82
- Chapter 11 'Peace could not give back her Dead': Women and the Armistice / Jane Potter 91
- Chapter 12 'A Museum of Man's Greatest Lunatic Folly': The Imperial War Museum and its Commemoration of the Great War, 1917-2008 / Terry Charman 99
- Chapter 13 Anthologies of Great War Verse: Mirrors of Change / Dominic Hibberd 107
- Chapter 14 Disenchantment Revisited / Brian Bond 115
- Chapter 15 Life-Writing and Fiction in First World War Prose / Max Saunders 129
- Chapter 16 Oral History and the First World War / Lyn Macdonald 137
- Chapter 17 Memorials / Gavin Stamp 142
- Chapter 18 Kleenex at the Ready? Britten's War Requiem: Which War, Whose Requiem? / Ian Bostridge 153
- Chapter 19 Courage, Mon Amie / Terry Castle 157
- Chapter 20 A Biplane in Gnomeregan: Popular Culture and the First World War / Esther MacCallum-Stewart 190
- Chapter 21 A View from the Trenches: An Introduction to the Archaeology of the Western Front / Tony Pollard 198
- Chapter 22 Remembrance / Dan Todman 209.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826498137
- 0826498132
- OCLC:
- 219995237
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