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A Part of History Aspects of the British Experience of the First World War
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.
Description
As the first 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.
The contributors to this book are:
Michael Howard
Gary Sheffield
Dan Todman
Stephen Badsey
Terry Charman
Esther Maccallum Stewart
Gavin Stamp
Brian Bond
Dominic Hibberd
Michael Burleigh
Jane Potter
Terry Castle
Ian Bostridge
Max Saunders
Julian Putkowski
Malcolm Brown
Trevor Wilson
Peter Hart
Santanu Das
Nick Hewitt
Tony Pollard
Nicholas Reeves
Lyn MacDonald
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
Author(s)
Michael Howard,
Sir Michael Howard served with the British Army in Italy during the Second World War and was awarded a Military Cross. Thereafter he established the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, which he left to become first Chilchele Professor of the History of War, and then Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, ending his professional career as Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale. He has been awarded The Order of Merit and is a Companion of Honour. In addition to his own History of the First World War, his works include The Franco-Prussian War, War in European History, and most recently Liberation or Catastrophe.
Reviews
Extract in The Times.
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Review in Times Literary Supplement.
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"For anyone wishing to keep abreast of the latest developments in the historiography of this period this is an invaluable source." - Contemporary Review
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Mention in the Bookseller Buyers Guide, 1 January 2008
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