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The Great War of 1914-1918 was the world’s first total conflict. It drew the whole population into the war effort as never before. The armed forces recruited on a scale that was previously unimaginable, and the munitions industries drew more and more citizens into the labor market. The entire national economy was thrown onto a war footing. The local newspapers of those years provide a unique picture of these momentous changes, and Reporting the Great War uses their words to recapture the experience of the time. It illustrates in telling detail the human tragedies and triumphs of a nation at war and the day-to-day preoccupations of communities trying to find normality during an unprecedented emergency.
Sections of the population were gripped by ‘hun-phobia’ – the fear that everything Germanic was an agent of the enemy. Terror of aerial attack and the shortages caused by the German submarine blockade brought the reality of war close to home. Unfamiliar terms entered the national vocabulary – conscription, conscientious objection, rationing – and pre-war assumptions, from the role of women to the use of alcohol, were challenged and changed.
Stuart Hylton’s fascinating account of the British home front during the Great War, as it was seen through the newspaper columns of the day, shows a nation seemingly sleepwalking into a war in 1914 and emerging, four years later, with the hope that a better world would come with the peace.
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Stuart Hylton has written widely on the history of Britain during the twentieth century, in particular during wartime. Among his other publications are Reading: A Pictorial History, A History of Manchester, Kent and Sussex 1940, Reporting the Blitiz and Careless Talk: The Hidden History of the Home Front.
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- PublisherPen and Sword Military
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1783463570
- ISBN 13 9781783463572
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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