The unquiet western front : Britain's role in literature and history /

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Britain's role in the First World War has been portrayed mainly through literature, films and plays, in most cases with a marked un-historical, anti-war spirit. This book follows the controversy from 1918 to the present, and concludes that historians are finally permitting the War to be placed...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bond, Brian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Army > History > World War, 1914-1918.
Grande-Bretagne. > Army > Histoire > Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
Great Britain. > Army
1900-1999
World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain.
World War, 1914-1918 > Casualties.
World War, 1914-1918 > Historiography.
Military discipline > Great Britain.
World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Western Front.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Grande-Bretagne.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Pertes.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Historiographie.
Discipline militaire > Grande-Bretagne.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Campagnes et batailles > Front occidental.
HISTORY > Military > World War I.
Battle casualties
Historiography
Military campaigns
Military discipline
Social conditions
Krijgsmacht.
Westelijk front (WO I)
Eerste Wereldoorlog.
Beeldvorming.
Geschiedschrijving.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Great Britain
Western Front (World War (1914-1918))
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 The necessary war, 1914-1918; 2 Goodbye to all that, 1919-1933; 3 Donkeys and Flanders mud the war rediscovered in the 1960s; 4 Thinking the unthinkable the First World War as history; Sir Lees Knowles (1857-1928); The Lees Knowles lectures; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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