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Contesting Home Defence
Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War
Av Penny Summerfield, Corinna Peniston-Bird
Inbunden, 2007
1263 kr
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Contesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of national unity. It scrutinises the Home …
Contesting home defence
Men, women and the Home Guard in the Second World War
Av Penny Summerfield, Corinna Peniston-Bird
Häftad, 2007
344 kr
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Contesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of national unity. It scrutinises the Home …
Healing the Nation
Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain During the Great War
Inbunden, 2005
1166 kr
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Healing the Nation is a study of caregiving during the Great War, exploring life behind the lines for ordinary British soldiers who served on the Western Front. Using a variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, this study draws connections between the war machine and the wartime …
Healing the nation
Soldiers and the culture of caregiving in Britain during the Great War
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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Healing the nation is a study of caregiving during the Great War, exploring life behind the lines for ordinary British soldiers who served on the Western Front. Using a variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, this study draws connections between the war machine and the wartime …
Paris and the Commune 1871–78
The Politics of Forgetting
Inbunden, 2007
1263 kr
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Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on the streets of Paris in just the final week of …
Behind Enemy Lines
Gender, Passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War
Inbunden, 2007
1263 kr
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Behind enemy lines is an examination of gender relations in wartime using the Special Operations Executive as a case study. Drawing on personal testimonies, in particular oral history and autobiography, as well as official records and film, it explores the extraordinary experiences of male and …
John Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of the Great War
With an Illustrated Selection of His Writings
Inbunden, 2009
1166 kr
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John Galsworthy – recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for literature – was one of the best-selling authors of the twentieth century. His literary reputation overshadows what he achieved during the Great War, which was his humanitarian support for and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the …
Imagining Armenia
Orientalism, Ambiguity and Intervention, 1879–1925
Inbunden, 2009
1166 kr
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This book examines how Armenia and Armenians were portrayed in Britain at a decisive moment in modern history.It illustrates how British observers represented the ‘in-between’ position of Armenians and considers the early development of atrocity narratives which related acts of violence and …
War, Disability and Rehabilitation in Britain
'soul of a Nation'
Inbunden, 2011
1156 kr
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Through a series of thematic chapters, Julie Anderson explores the nature of injured and disabled bodies before, during and after the Second World War. Beginning at the end of the First World War and finishing with the publication of the Piercy Committee’s report in 1956, the book examines medical …
French Crime Fiction and the Second World War
Past Crimes, Present Memories
Inbunden, 2012
1156 kr
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This study explores France’s preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more enduring forms, crime fiction. It examines what such popular narratives have to tell us about past and present perceptions of the war years in France and …
Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other'
Italian Scottish Experience in World War II
Inbunden, 2011
1156 kr
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Italy’s declaration of war on Britain in June 1940 had devastating consequences for Italian immigrant families living in Scotland signalling their traumatic construction as the ‘enemy other’. Through an analysis of personal testimonies and previously unpublished archival material, this book takes a …
Secret Battle
Emotional Survival in the Great War
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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What did home mean to British soldiers and how did it help them to cope with the psychological strains of the Great War? Family relationships lie at the heart of this book. It explores the contribution letters and parcels from home played in maintaining the morale of this largely young, amateur …
Stomach for Fighting
Food and the Soldiers of the Great War
Inbunden, 2011
1156 kr
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Food is critical to military performance, but it’s also central to social interaction and fundamental to our sense of identity. The soldiers of the Great War didn’t shed their eating preferences with their civilian clothes and the army rations, heavily reliant on bully beef and hardtack biscuit, …
Behind enemy lines
Gender, passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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Behind enemy lines is an examination of gender relations in wartime using the Special Operations Executive as a case study. Drawing on personal testimonies, in particular oral history and autobiography, as well as official records and film, it explores the extraordinary experiences of male and …
From Victory to Vichy
Veterans in Inter-War France
Inbunden, 2012
1263 kr
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The most up-to-date and comprehensive English-language study of its kind, From victory to Vichy explores the political mobilisation of the two largest French veterans’ associations during the interwar years, the Union fédérale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC). Drawing on extensive …
Containing trauma
Nursing work in the First World War
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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In this lucid and cogently-argued book, Christine Hallett explores the nature of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War. She argues that nurses found meaning in their complex and stressful work by identifying it as a process of ‘containing …
Civvies
Middle–Class Men on the English Home Front, 1914–18
Inbunden, 2013
1156 kr
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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 …
Dying for the Nation
Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain
Av Lucy Noakes
Inbunden, 2020
1263 kr
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Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communities who have to find ways to manage death, to support the bereaved and to dispose of bodies amidst the confusion of conflict. It matters to the state, …
Civilians into Soldiers
War, the Body and British Army Recruits, 1939–45
Inbunden, 2014
1263 kr
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Civilians into soldiers is an examination of body cultures in the British Army during the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of official records and servicemen’s personal testimonies, it explores the ways in which male civilians were turned into soldiers through the techniques by which they were …
Silent Morning
Culture and Memory After the Armistice
Inbunden, 2013
1337 kr
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This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains 14 new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. The Armistice brought hopes for a better future, as well as sadness, disappointment and rage. Many people …
Working in a World of Hurt
Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives of Medical Personnel in Warzones
Inbunden, 2015
1263 kr
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Working in a world of hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war. It focuses not on soldiers, but on the men and women who fought to save them in casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps. The writings by doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers …
French Crime Fiction and the Second World War
Past Crimes, Present Memories
Häftad, 2014
509 kr
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This study explores France’s preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more enduring forms: crime fiction. It examines what such popular narratives have to tell us about past and present perceptions of the war years in France and …
John Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of the Great War
With an Illustrated Selection of His Writings
Häftad, 2014
382 kr
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John Galsworthy – recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for literature – was one of the best-selling authors of the twentieth century. His literary reputation overshadows what he achieved during the Great War, which was his humanitarian support for and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the …
Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other'
Italian Scottish Experience in World War II
Häftad, 2014
382 kr
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Italy’s declaration of war on Britain in June 1940 had devastating consequences for Italian immigrant families living in Scotland signalling their traumatic construction as the ‘enemy other’. Through an analysis of personal testimonies and previously unpublished archival material, this book takes a …
French Children Under the Allied Bombs, 1940–45
An Oral History
Av Lindsey Dodd
Inbunden, 2016
1263 kr
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Children under the Allied bombs in France provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57,000 French civilians. Using oral history as well as archival research, it provides an insight into children's wartime lives in which bombing …
stomach for fighting
Food and the soldiers of the Great War
Häftad, 2015
382 kr
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Food is critical to military performance, but it is also central to social interaction and fundamental to our sense of identity. The soldiers of the Great War did not shed their eating preferences with their civilian clothes, and the army rations, heavily reliant on bully beef and hardtack biscuit, …
Men in Reserve
British Civilian Masculinities in the Second World War
Av Juliette Pattinson, Arthur McIvor m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1236 kr
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Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces. It uses fifty six newly conducted oral history interviews as well as autobiographies, visual sources and existing archived interviews to explore …
Paris and the Commune 1871–78
The Politics of Forgetting
Häftad, 2016
382 kr
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Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on the streets of Paris in just the final week of …
From Victory to Vichy
Veterans in Inter-War France
Häftad, 2016
382 kr
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The most up-to-date and comprehensive English-language study of its kind, From victory to Vichy explores the political mobilisation of the two largest French veterans' associations during the interwar years, the Union fédérale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC). Drawing on extensive …
New Naval History
Av Quintin Colville, James Davey
Inbunden, 2018
1337 kr
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A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. …
