A part of history : aspects of the British experience of the First World War
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A part of history : aspects of the British experience of the First World War
Continuum, 2008
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Pbk. : 23 cm
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: hbk ISBN 9780826498137
Description
How will our understanding of the First World War change as first-hand experiences are lost? This question is explored by leading historians and experts.As the last survivors die out, the First World War passes into the realm of history. This book is not only a consideration of various aspects of the British experience of the war in the light of more recent historiographical trends: but also a prediction of how these areas are likely to be researched and written about in the future.The central theme is how our understanding of the war is likely to change now that first hand experience has been lost.
Table of Contents
- Michael Howard - Introduction
- Gary Sheffield - Military Revisionism
- Dan Todman - Remembrance
- Stephen Badsey - Press, Propaganda and Public Perceptions
- Terry Charman - WWI and the IWM
- Esther Maccallum Stewart - Popular Culture
- Gavin Stamp - Memorials
- Brian Bond - 'Disenchantment' Revisited
- Dominic Hibbered - Poetry of WWI
- Michael Burleigh - Religion and WWI
- Jane Potter - Women and the War
- Terry Castle - 'Courage, mon amie'.
- Ian Bostridge - Britten's War Requiem
- Max Saunders - Prose of WWI
- Julian Putkowski - Anti-revisionism and WWI: Pardons for those shot at dawn.
- Malcolm Brown - British Tommy
- Trevor Wilson - the Somme
- Peter Hart - Gallipoli
- Santanu Das - the Indian experience of the FWW
- Nick Hewitt - war at sea: role played by the Grand Fleet (before and after Jutland)
- Tony Pollard - WW1 and Archaeology
- Nicholas Reeves - WW1 and British Film Propaganda
- Lyn MacDonald - Oral Testimony.
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: pbk ISBN 9781441155306
Description
How will our understanding of the First World War change as first-hand experiences are lost? This question is explored by leading historians and experts. As the last survivors die out, the First World War passes into the realm of history. This book is a consideration of various aspects of the British experience of the war in the light of more recent historiographical trends: but also a prediction of how these areas are likely to be researched and written about in the future. The central theme is how our understanding of the war is likely to change now that first hand experience has been lost.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - Michael Howard
- 1. Military Revisionism: the Case of the British Army on the Western Front - Gary Sheffield
- 2. The British Tommy - Malcolm Brown
- 3. Press, Propoaganda, and Public Perceptions - Stephen Badsey
- 4. Gallipoli: A Stone unturned - Peter Hart
- 5. Writing about Jutland: Historiogrpahy and Hysteria - Nick Hewitt
- 6. The Somme - Trevor Wilson
- 7. Anti-revisionism and WW1: Pardons for Those Shot at Dawn - Julian Putkowski
- 8. India and the First World War - Santanu Das
- 9. Religion and the Great War - Michael Burleigh
- 10. Forgotten Film-makers: Britain's Official Wartime Film Propaganda - Nicholas Reeves
- 11. Memorials - Gavin Stamp
- 12. WW1 and the Imperial War Museum - Terry Charman
- 13. Disenchantment Revisited - Brian Bond
- 14. 'Peace could not give back her Dead': Women and the Armistice - Jane Potter
- 15. Anthologies of Great War verse: mirrors of change - Dominic Hibberd
- 16. Life-Writing and Fiction in First World War Prose - Max Saunders
- 17. Oral History and the First World War - Lyn Macdonald
- 18. Britten's War Requiem - Ian Bostridge
- 19. Courage, mon amie - Terry Castle
- 20. A Biplane in Gnomeregan: Popular Culture and the First World War - Esther MacCallum-Stewart
- 21. Remembrance - Dan Todman
- 22. WW1 and Archaeology - Tony Pollard.
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