The Unquiet Western Front
Britain's Role in Literature and History
Britain’s outstanding military achievement in the First World War has been eclipsed by literary myths. Why has the Army’s role on the Western Front been so seriously misrepresented? This book shows how myths have become deeply rooted, particularly in the inter-war period, in the 1960s, and in the 1990s. The outstanding ‘anti-war’ influences have been ‘war poets’, subalterns’ trench memoirs, the book and film of All Quiet on the Western Front, and the play Journey’s End. For a new generation in the 1960s the play and film of Oh What a Lovely War had a dramatic effect, while more recently Blackadder has been dominant. Until more recently, histo…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-521-03641-2
- EAN: 9780521036412
- Produktnummer: 2822398
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 140 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.7 cm 215 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 215
Über den Autor
Brian Bond is Emeritus Professor of Military History, King's College London. One of Britain's leading military historians, he has been President of the British Commission for Military History since 1986.
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