Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain
Title | Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2004 |
Authors | Watson, Janet S. K. |
Number of Pages | 333 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
City | Cambridge |
Abstract | The popular idea of the First World War is a story of disillusionment and pointless loss. This vision, however, dates from well after the Armistice. Here, Janet Watson separates out wartime from retrospective accounts and contrasts war as lived experience - for soldiers, women and non-combatants - with war as memory, comparing men's and women's responses and tracing the re-creation of the war experience in later writings. Using a wealth of published and unpublished wartime and retrospective texts, Watson contends that participants tended to construct their experience - lived and remembered - as either work or service. In fact, far from having a united front, many active participants were in fact 'fighting different wars', and this process only continued in the decades following peace. |
URL | http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/twentieth-century-british-history/fighting-different-wars-experience-memory-and-first-world-war-britain |
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