Jay Winter (Yale University, Connecticut), Jean-Louis Robert (Université de Paris I)
This is the second volume of a pioneering two-volume comparative history of the capital cities of Britain, France and Germany during the Great War. Leading historians explore these wartime cities, from the railway stations where newcomers took on new identities to the streets they surveyed and the pubs, cafes and theatres they frequented, and examine notions of identity, the sites and rituals of city life, and wartime civic and popular culture. This volume, first published in 2007, offers a comparative cultural history of London, Paris and Berlin and reveals the great affinities and...
This is the second volume of a pioneering two-volume comparative history of the capital cities of Britain, France and Germany during the Great War. Le...