Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain: 16 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare, Series Number 16)

Watson

ISBN 10: 052103549X / ISBN 13: 9780521035491

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain: 16 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare, Series Number 16)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052103549X
• ISBN 13: 9780521035491
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Janet Watson's study of war and memory uses published and unpublished British wartime and retrospective writings concerning World War I. Watson examines differing attitudes to this war among men and women, across different social classes, and in different periods. She concludes that participants often saw their experience - lived and remembered- as either work or service. In fact, far from having a united front, many active participants were 'fighting different wars', and this process only continued in the decades following peace.

About the Author

Janet Watson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Connecticut.