John Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of the Great War

Jeffrey Reznick

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• John Galsworthy - recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for literature - was one of the best-selling authors of the twentieth century. His literary reputa... Lees meer

Healing the Nation

Jeffrey Reznick

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• 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 variet... Lees meer

John Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of the Great War

Jeffrey Reznick

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• The most comprehensive study published to date about John Galsworthy’s philanthropic support for, and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the ... Lees meer

The Stomach for Fighting

Rachel Duffett

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• 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 G... Lees meer

French Crime Fiction and the Second World War

Claire Gorrara

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• This study explores France's preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more endurin... Lees meer

Containing Trauma

Christine Hallett

• Hardcover | Cultural History of Modern War
• In this highly original contribution to knowledge about a little-known subject: the history of nursing work, Christine Hallett explores the nature and... Lees meer

Europe on the Move

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• Mass population displacement affected millions of Europe's civilians across the different theatres of war in 1914-18. At the end of the war, a senior ... Lees meer

Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other'

Wendy Ugolini

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• An original and engaging study which examines the impact of World War Two on the Italian community in Scotland. -- . Lees meer

The Unimagined Community

Duy Lap Nguyen

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• The unimagined community proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam War from a perspective that has been largely excluded from historical accounts of the... Lees meer

Creating the People's War

Jessica Hammett

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• Why has the 'people's war' been such a durable and attractive myth? Creating the people's war examines how civil defence personnel engaged with this n... Lees meer

The Bad German and the Good Italian

Filippo Focardi

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• In the Axis War on the side of Germany, Mussolini's Italy was responsible for serious war crimes, especially in Yugoslavia and Greece. This 'dark side... Lees meer

Dying for the Nation

Lucy Noakes

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• 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 ... Lees meer

War, Disability and Rehabilitation in Britain

Julie Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• Through a series of thematic chapters, Julie Anderson explores the nature of injured and disabled bodies before, during and after the Second World War... Lees meer

Picturing the Western Front

Beatriz Pichel

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Either classified in military archives specially crea... Lees meer

Healing the Nation

Jeffrey Reznick

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• British soldiers who served on the Western front. Using a variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, Dr Reznick shows that Britain’s... Lees meer

French Crime Fiction and the Second World War

Claire Gorrara

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• This study explores France's preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more endurin... Lees meer

Haunted Britain

Kyle Falcon

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• The Great War haunted the British Empire. Shell shocked soldiers relived the war's trauma through waking nightmares consisting of mutilated and grotes... Lees meer

The Unimagined Community

Duy Lap Nguyen

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• The unimagined community proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam War from a perspective that has been largely excluded from historical accounts of the... Lees meer

The Stomach for Fighting

Rachel Duffett

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• Food is fundamental to soldiers’ morale and performance and yet to date it has received little attention from historians, who have reiterated army sta... Lees meer

From victory to Vichy

Christopher Millington

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• 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... Lees meer

Afterlives of War

Michael Roper

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• Afterlives of war documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations who grew up in Australia, Britain and Germany after the First World W... Lees meer

Europe on the Move

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• Mass population displacement affected millions of Europe's civilians across the different theatres of war in 1914-18. At the end of the war, a senior ... Lees meer

French Children Under the Allied Bombs, 1940-45

Lindsey Dodd

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• Children under the Allied bombs in France provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed aroun... Lees meer

Contesting Home Defence

Penny Summerfield, Corinna Peniston-Bird

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural History of Modern War
• Offering a new contribution to debates about the British home front in WWII, this book addresses the way the Home Guard has been remembered in popular... Lees meer