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Postcards from the Western Front - Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists after the Great War (Hardcover)
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Postcards from the Western Front - Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists after the Great War (Hardcover)
Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies
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Visitors to the battlefields of France and Belgium expressed pain
and anguish, pride and nostalgia, and wonder and surprise at what
they saw. Postcards from the Western Front chronicles the many ways
in which these sites were perceived and commemorated by British
people, both during the First World War and in the twenty years
following the Armistice. Mark Connelly's definitive and engaging
study of the former Western Front examines how different and
distinctive sub-communities - regional, ethnic and religious,
civilian and armed forces - influenced the depth and strength of
the visiting public's relationship with the battlefields, all the
while comparing and contrasting this relationship with the
viewpoint of the French and Belgian inhabitants of the devastated
regions. Connelly draws from a vast archive a number of
interlocking themes, including the lingering presence of the
battlefields in the British domestic imagination, the often fraught
experience of visiting the battlefields, memorials and cemeteries
functioning as part of a historical testimony to wartime realities,
and the interactions between visitors and the people living in
these former fighting zones. Focusing on French and Belgian sites,
Connelly nevertheless provides insight into other major
battlefields fought over by troops from the British Empire.
Extensively illustrated with black and white photographs, Postcards
from the Western Front offers a groundbreaking perspective on
landscapes that rarely left anyone - whether tourist, inhabitant,
veteran, or pilgrim - unmoved.
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