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British Army Uniform and the First World War - Men in Khaki (Hardcover, New)
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British Army Uniform and the First World War - Men in Khaki (Hardcover, New)
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What did British combatants wear on the western front in the First
World War? From the idealized recruitment images to the coarse
trousers and ill-fitting tunics, Jane Tynan retraces wartime
culture through images and experiences of khaki. Photographs,
newspapers, memoirs, war office documents and tailoring ephemera
reveal the impact of the war on the tailoring trade. But the story
of uniform also involves the wartime knitting projects, the issue
of 'Kitchener Blue', Sikhs wearing khaki on the western front, and
the punishments given to COs. Military uniforms were designed to
make soldiers of civilian men and to rank them according to race
and class, but Tynan argues that neat images of men in khaki
concealed the reality that clothing an ever-expanding army involved
compromise, resistance and improvisation. Uniforms transformed men
and war changed British society. This book tells the story of
British army clothing during wartime and offers insights into why
khaki has endured as the symbol of modern militarism.
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