What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for
in 1914-18? This compelling history of the British home front
during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how
British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official
archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new
light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of
propaganda and rumour in fostering patriotism and hatred of the
enemy. He shows the importance of the ethic of volunteerism and the
rhetoric of sacrifice in debates over where the burdens of war
should fall as well as the influence of religious ideas on wartime
culture. As the war drew to a climax and tensions about the
distribution of sacrifices threatened to tear society apart, he
shows how victory and the processes of commemoration helped create
a fiction of a society united in grief.
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