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The Unquiet Western Front - Britain's Role in Literature and History (Paperback)
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The Unquiet Western Front - Britain's Role in Literature and History (Paperback)
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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 2002 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,
historians had either reinforced the myths, or had failed to
counter them. This book follows the intense controversy from 1918
to the present, and concludes that historians are at last
permitting the First World War to be placed in proper perspective.
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