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Civvies : Middle-class men on the English Home Front, 1914-18.
The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and parti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Cultural History of Modern War MUP.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who - or so it seems - volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men did not enlist, but we still know little about their wartime experiences. Civvies thus takes a different approach to the history of the war and fo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (348 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-333) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526110756 152611075X 9781526110749 1526110741 |