The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History

ISBN-13: 9780521809955 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 140 str.

Brian Bond

Opis

Britain's role in the First World War has been portrayed through literature, films and plays with a marked un-historical, anti-war spirit. Deeply-rooted myths have thus become dominant and historians have either endorsed them, or have written narrowly for other specialists. As a result of the opening of official military archives and more objective study, these portrayals are now being challenged. This book traces the controversy from 1918 to the present, concluding that historians are finally permitting World War I to be placed in a more accurate perspective.

Recenzje

'… useful and provocative …' Cultural and Social History

Spis treści

Preface and acknowledgements; 1. The necessary war, 1914–18; 2. Goodbye to all that, 1919–33; 3. Donkeys and Flanders mud: the war rediscovered in the 1960s; 4. Thinking the unthinkable: the first world war as history; Sir Lees Knowles (1857–1928); The Lees Knowles lectures; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.