Engrossing and poignant...With exceptional nuance and writerly grace, Huebner probes the war's affective history...By placing the family at the center of his study-while remaining ever
mindful of the intersections between cultural constructions of the home and those of race, ethnicity, class, and gender-Andrew Huebner makes an important and original contribution to First World War Studies. Dozens of new books on World War I have appeared since the start of the centennial period in 2014. Beautifully written and deeply moving, Love and Death in the Great War stands among the very best of them.
Andrew J. Huebner is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama. He is the author of The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era.