Memories from the Frontline: Memoirs and Meanings of the Great War from Britain, France and Germany

ISBN-13: 9783030086091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 339 str.

Jerry Palmer

Spis treści

1. The Great War genes.- 2. Marginal Voices.- 3. Language and Combat.- 4. Themes in British reviews of Great War memoirs.- 5. Blunder, Undertones of War and De Bello Germanico.- 6. Reading Lawrence of Arabia in 1927.- 7. Henry d'Estre, From Oran to Arras.- 8. Reading Barbusse, Under Fire in 1917.- 9. Genevoix, The Men of 14.- 10. The Norton Cru affair.- 11. War memoirs and German politics in the 1920s.- 12. Contrasting versions of nationalism at war's end.- 13. Renn, War.- 14. von Salomon, The Outlaws (Les Réprouvés).- 15. Transnational comparisons.

O autorze

Jerry Palmer is the former Professor of Communications at London Metropolitan University, UK and Visiting Professor of Sociology at City University. He is the author of six other books and many scholarly articles about popular culture and the mass media.