Living on the Western Front : annals and stories, 1914-1919 / by Chris Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Chris, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front--Sources.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, British.

Great Britain. Army. British Expeditionary Force--Military life.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Summary:

Living on the Western Front provides a highly original history of the settler experience in Befland ([B]ritish [E]xpeditionary [F]orce land) during the First World War. Using an unusual representational form that involves the stitching together of over a hundred extracts from primary sources, which can then in turn be read either chronologically or thematically, Chris Ward brilliantly depicts a sense of settlers' lives in Great War Belgium, Northern France and Germany. Simultaneously an annal and an anthology of stories, this book tells us about landscapes, sounds, smells, food, journeys, memo

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; How to read the book; Sources and themes; Editing the sources; The war in the west; Index of stories; Annals and stories; Maps; General glossary; Glossary of diarists, correspondents and memoirists; Abbreviations used in the notes; Archival sources; Published sources; Notes; Introduction; Annals and Stories; List of works cited; Archival sources; Newspapers; Official histories; Other published material; Other material

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781441182708

1441182705

OCLC:

833766674