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British soldiers who served on the Western front. Using a variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, Dr Reznick shows that Britain's 'generation of 1914' was a group bound as much by comradeship of healing as by comradeship of the trenches. -- .

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This study of caregiving during WW I looks anew at life behind the lines for ordinary British soldiers who served on the Western front. Using a variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, Dr Reznick shows that Britains generation of 1914 was a group bound as much by comradeship of healing as by comradeship of the trenches.

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Home front heroism explores how civilians were framed as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how the effects and demands of conflict created increased opportunities for heroics, and created a need for heroism to be acknowledged, awarded and celebrated.

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This book examines how Armenia and Armenians were portrayed in Britain at a decisive moment in modern history, when diplomats, scholars and humanitarians engaged with the past, present and future of Armenia. -- .

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The most comprehensive study published to date about John Galsworthy's philanthropic support for, and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the Great War. It makes available for the first time in a single edition the most significant of his compositions about the war disabled and examining their value as historical documents. -- .

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The most comprehensive study published to date about John Galsworthy's philanthropic support for, and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the Great War. It makes available for the first time in a single edition the most significant of his compositions about the war disabled and examining their value as historical documents. -- .

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This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society. -- .

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This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society. -- .

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Men in reserve provides the first nationwide study of the reserved occupations, bringing together a wide range of sources including new oral histories, autobiographies, archive, visual and film materials. -- .

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Mobilizing nature traces the environmental history of war and militarisation in France. It offers a fresh perspective on the well-known conflicts whilst uncovering the largely 'hidden' history of the numerous military bases and other installations that pepper the French countryside. -- .

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Mobilizing nature traces the environmental history of war and militarisation in France. It offers a fresh perspective on the well-known conflicts whilst uncovering the largely 'hidden' history of the numerous military bases and other installations that pepper the French countryside.

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Colette Wilson writes clearly and authoritatively and her original, scholarly and beautifully illustrated book makes a strong contribution to our understanding of the Paris Commune, its aftermath in the early years of the Third Republic and French cultural memory overall -- .

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Colette Wilson writes clearly and authoritatively and her original, scholarly and beautifully illustrated book makes a strong contribution to our understanding of the Paris Commune, its aftermath in the early years of the Third Republic and French cultural memory overall. -- .

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Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Classified in archives, collected in personal albums and circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. This book argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civilians war experiences.

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Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Classified in archives, collected in personal albums and circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. This book argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civilians war experiences.

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This book describes how Italy elaborated a master narrative of the Second World War that evades the faults of Mussolini's fascist war by attributing all responsibility on the shoulders of the German ally

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A study of actual and perceived French civilian behaviours under German military occupation in 1914-18, from complicity and criminality to forms of resistance. Providing a new conceptual vocabulary, the book posits that an 'occupied culture' existed and guided civilian responses to the German presence, and each other. -- .

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The Korean War in Britain is the first social history of the Korean War (1950-1953) in Britain. Assessing the impact of the war from 1950 to the early twenty-first century, this original book examines how British people responded to the Korean War and it came to be known as the 'Forgotten War' of the twentieth century. -- .

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Bringing together leading historians, this volume offers a vital and timely reassessment of Munich Crisis of 1938 from the point of view of the politicians, the people, and public opinion. It takes into account the profound social, cultural, and psychological effects of the crisis, hitherto neglected aspects of this clash between democracy and dictatorship.

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This is a study of domestic life during the war, of what people on the home front did to support men at the front, and of how soldiers in trenches organised the routines of feeding, rest, warmth, washing, that ensured their survival. -- .

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Now available in paperback, this study of the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 contains 14 new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. -- .

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The first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 -- .

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Extensively researched from a wide range of sources so that theoretical concepts are illuminated with the men's own accounts of lived experience. -- .

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The unimagined community presents a wide-ranging study of South Vietnemese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular culture and film. The book pursues the provocative claim that in its early phase the conflict was not an anti-communist crusade, but a struggle between two different forms of anticolonial communism.