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The last Great War : British society and the First World War / Adrian Gregory.
Van Pelt Library D524.7.G7 G74 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gregory, Adrian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The war that did not end all wars 1
- 1 Going to war 9
- 2 Defining the enemy: Atrocities and propaganda 1914-1915 40
- 3 From spectatorship to participation; From volunteering to compulsion 1914-1916 70
- 4 Economies of sacrifice 112
- 5 Redemption through war: Religion and the languages of sacrifice 152
- 6 The conditional sacrifices of labour 1915-1918 187
- 7 Struggling to victory 1917-1918 213
- 8 The last war? 249.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521450379
- 9780521728836
- 0521450373
- 0521728835
- OCLC:
- 256534379
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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