Ross Wilson is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past in the Department of History, University of York, UK. He has research interests in the fields of heritage, landscapes, material culture and cultural representation. His doctoral research (York, 2008) focused on the battlefields of the Western Front (1914-1918) and the manner in which they have been portrayed and remembered through the memorial landscape, historiography, literature, film and archaeology.

‘A provocative demonstration of the ways British soldiers familiarized the unnatural and came to terms with the multiple Hells of the Western Front.’ – Dennis Showalter, Colorado College, USA

• 1. Introduction 2. Representing the Western Front: Locating the Individual 3. The Western Front, 1914-1918 4. Behind the Lines 5. In the Trenches 6. The Materials of War 7. Conclusions Bibliography Index

Ross Wilson is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past in the Department of History, University of York, UK. He has research interests in the fields of heritage, landscapes, material culture and cultural representation. His doctoral research (York, 2008) focused on the battlefields of the Western Front (1914-1918) and the manner in which they have been portrayed and remembered through the memorial landscape, historiography, literature, film and archaeology.

‘A provocative demonstration of the ways British soldiers familiarized the unnatural and came to terms with the multiple Hells of the Western Front.’ – Dennis Showalter, Colorado College, USA

• 1. Introduction 2. Representing the Western Front: Locating the Individual 3. The Western Front, 1914-1918 4. Behind the Lines 5. In the Trenches 6. The Materials of War 7. Conclusions Bibliography Index

Ross Wilson is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past in the Department of History, University of York, UK. He has research interests in the fields of heritage, landscapes, material culture and cultural representation. His doctoral research (York, 2008) focused on the battlefields of the Western Front (1914-1918) and the manner in which they have been portrayed and remembered through the memorial landscape, historiography, literature, film and archaeology.

‘A provocative demonstration of the ways British soldiers familiarized the unnatural and came to terms with the multiple Hells of the Western Front.’ – Dennis Showalter, Colorado College, USA

• 1. Introduction 2. Representing the Western Front: Locating the Individual 3. The Western Front, 1914-1918 4. Behind the Lines 5. In the Trenches 6. The Materials of War 7. Conclusions Bibliography Index