British Culture and the First World War

Toby Thacker

ISBN 10: 1441180745 / ISBN 13: 9781441180742

Published by Continuum International Publishing Group, 2014

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pp. 376, Maps, Index.

Seller Inventory # 2697042740

Bibliographic Details

• Title: British Culture and the First World War
• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441180745
• ISBN 13: 9781441180742
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The First World War has been mythologized since 1918, and many paradigmatic views of it - that it was pointless, that brave soldiers were needlessly sacrificed - are deeply embedded in the British consciousness. More than in any other country, these collective British memories were influenced by the experiences and the work of writers, painters and musicians.

This book revisits the British experience of the War through the eyes and ears of a diverse group of carefully selected novelists, poets, composers and painters. It examines how they reacted to and portrayed their experiences in the trenches on the Western Front, in distant theatres of war and on the home front, in words, pictures and music that would have a profound influence on subsequent British perceptions of the war.

Rupert Brooke, Vera Brittain, Richard Nevinson, Paul Nash, Edward Elgar and T. E. Lawrence are amongst the figures discussed in this original exploration of the First World War and British collective memory. The book includes illustrations and maps to aid further study and research.

About the Author

Toby Thacker is Lecturer in Modern European History at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death (2009), Music after Hitler, 1945-1955 (2007) and The End of the Third Reich: Defeat, Denazification, and Nuremberg, 1944–1946 (2006).