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Living on the Western Front - Annals and Stories, 1914-1919 (Hardcover, New)
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Living on the Western Front - Annals and Stories, 1914-1919 (Hardcover, New)
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Living on the Western Front provides a highly original history of
the settler experience in Befland ([B]ritish [E]xpeditionary
[F]orce land) during the First World War. Using an unusual
representational form that involves the stitching together of over
a hundred extracts from primary sources, which can then in turn be
read either chronologically or thematically, Chris Ward brilliantly
depicts a sense of settlers' lives in Great War Belgium, Northern
France and Germany. Simultaneously an annal and an anthology of
stories, this book tells us about landscapes, sounds, smells, food,
journeys, memory and morale in the way that the Befland settlers
actually lived and experienced them. The book also challenges
popular conceptions of what history writing can or should be. It
drags us away from the reassuringly commanding authorial voice of
the conventional historical narrative towards an approach that
brings a degree of uncertainty and encourages us to experiment with
History and its relationship with the past in an exciting and
rewarding way.
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