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The Great War - Western Front and Home Front (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Great War - Western Front and Home Front (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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We have often heard about the brutal world of the trenches, the
willingness of brave young soldiers and the apparent indifference
of the generals, but reevaluations of the Great War in previous
decades have shown us much more complexity, and in many cases some
surprising reconstructions of very standard narratives of the war.
The traditional isolation of the battle front from the home front,
which historians have tended to observe, has given us an incomplete
understanding of both fronts. In this study of Word War I, Hunt
Tooley crosses the boundaries of national histories to examine the
various connections between the 400-mile-long Western Front and the
home fronts of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada,
Australia and the United States. Tooley draws on recent research
and the wealth of primary souce material available to provide a
broad synthesis of a complex event, and to create a more holistic
view of the war - as men stayed in touch with those at home, as
governments responded to events on the battlefield, and as writers,
poets and artists brought the cultural impulses of Europe to the
deadly world of the Western Front. In his clearly-written,
wide-ranging study, Tooley argues that the seeds of much of the
20th century may have been planted well before the First World War,
but - as many social critics, politicians, soldiers, women's
movement leaders, and others predicted - the cultivation of these
seeds in war would have a powerful and formative effect on the
social, political and cultural processes which shaped the 20th
century.
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