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British Culture and the First World War: Experience, Representation and Memory
Dr Toby Thacker
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Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 578.
The First World War has been mythologized since 1918, and many paradigmatic views of it - that it was pointless, that brave soldiers were needlessly sacrificed - are deeply embedded in the British consciousness. More than in any other country, these collective British memories were influenced by the experiences and the work of writers, painters and musicians. This book revisits the British experience of the War through the eyes and ears of a diverse group of carefully selected novelists, poets, composers and painters. It examines how they reacted to and portrayed their experiences in the trenches on the Western ... Read more
The First World War has been mythologized since 1918, and many paradigmatic views of it - that it was pointless, that brave soldiers were needlessly sacrificed - are deeply embedded in the British consciousness. More than in any other country, these collective British memories were influenced by the experiences and the work of writers, painters and musicians. This book revisits the British experience of the War through the eyes and ears of a diverse group of carefully selected novelists, poets, composers and painters. It examines how they reacted to and portrayed their experiences in the trenches on the Western ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441180742
SKU
V9781441180742
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About Dr Toby Thacker
Toby Thacker is Lecturer in Modern European History at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death (2009), Music after Hitler, 1945-1955 (2007) and The End of the Third Reich: Defeat, Denazification, and Nuremberg, 1944–1946 (2006).
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