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Over the Top - The Great War and Juvenile Literature in Britain (Hardcover, New)
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Over the Top - The Great War and Juvenile Literature in Britain (Hardcover, New)
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During the Great War, books and stories for young men were
frequently used as unofficial propaganda for recruitment and to
sell the war to British youth as a moral crusade. Until now, this
literature has been neglected by academics, but the image of the
war these fictions created was remarkably enduring and, despite the
appearance of post-war literature of disillusioned veterans,
continued to shape the attitudes of the young well into the 1930s.
This is the first detailed account of how adventure fiction
represented the Great War for British boys between 1914 and the end
of the war. Paris examines how such literature explained the causes
of the war to boys and girls and how it encouraged young men to
participate in the noble crusade on the Western Front and in other
theaters. He explores the imagery of the trenches, the war in the
air, and the nature of war in the Middle East and Africa. He also
details the links between popular writers and the official literary
propaganda campaign. The study concludes by looking at how these
heroic images remained in print, enduring well into the inter-war
years.
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