The Soldiers' Press : Trench Journals in the First World War / Graham Seal, Director, Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute, Curtin University, Australia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seal, Graham, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Journalism, Military.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives.

Journalism, Military.

World War, 1914-1918--Literary collections.

World War, 1914-1918--Sources.

Soldiers' writings.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Sources.

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Why did millions of men agree to fight the most horrific war in history? And go on doing it, in many cases, for years? The question of consent is one of the many issues of the Great War that still haunt us today. The soldiers of 1914-18 created a large body of newspapers and magazines by, for and about themselves. Often misleadingly called 'trench journals', these rich archival sources have received surprisingly little sustained scholarly attention. Through the first comprehensive investigation and analysis of the English-language trench periodicals of the war - British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and American - The Soldiers' Press presents a cultural interpretation of the means and methods through which consent was negotiated between the trenches and the home front. The few existing book-length studies tend to use trench newspapers as sources of information to answer historical questions. The Soldiers Press treats soldier journalism on its own terms and provides a hew answer to one lasting conundrum of World War I. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Zones of War

From the Trenches

We're Here Because We're Here

Things We Want to Know

In the Pink

The War

Identities

Suffering Cheerfulness

References and Sources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137303257

1137303255

OCLC:

820434246