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Behind enemy lines is an examination of gender relations in wartime
using the Special Operations Executive as a case study. Drawing on
personal testimonies, in particular oral history and autobiography,
as well as official records and film, it explores the extraordinary
experiences of male and female agents who were recruited and
trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into
Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during
the Second World War. With its original interpretation of a wealth
of primary sources, it examines how these ordinary, law-abiding
civilians were transformed into para-military secret agents,
equipped with silent killing techniques and trained in unarmed
combat. This fascinating, timely and engaging book is concerned
with the ways in which the SOE veterans reconstruct their wartime
experiences of recruitment, training, clandestine work and for
some, their captivity, focusing specifically upon the significance
of gender and their attempts to pass as French civilians. This
examination of the agents of an officially-sponsored insurgent
organisation makes a major contribution to British socio-cultural
history, war studies and gender studies and will appeal to both the
general reader, as well as to those in the academic community. -- .
This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research on
British masculinities and male culture, considering the myriad ways
British men experienced, understood and remembered their exploits
during the Second World War, as active combatants, prisoners and as
civilian workers. It examines male identities, roles and
representations in the armed forces, with particular focus on the
RAF, army, volunteers for dangerous duties and prisoners of war,
and on the home front, with case studies of reserved occupations
and Bletchley Park, and examines the ways such roles have been
remembered in post-war years in memoirs, film and memorials. As
such this analysis of previously underexplored male experiences
makes a major contribution to the historiography of Britain in the
Second World War, as well as to socio-cultural history, cultural
studies and gender studies.
Behind enemy lines is an examination of gender relations in wartime
using the Special Operations Executive as a case study. Drawing on
personal testimonies, in particular oral history and autobiography,
as well as official records and film, it explores the extraordinary
experiences of male and female agents who were recruited and
trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into
Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during
the Second World War. With its original interpretation of a wealth
of primary sources, it examines how these ordinary, law-abiding
civilians were transformed into para-military secret agents,
equipped with silent killing techniques and trained in unarmed
combat. This fascinating, timely and engaging book is concerned
with the ways in which the SOE veterans reconstruct their wartime
experiences of recruitment, training, clandestine work and for
some, their captivity, focusing specifically upon the significance
of gender and their attempts to pass as French civilians. This
examination of the agents of an officially-sponsored insurgent
organisation makes a major contribution to British socio-cultural
history, war studies and gender studies and will appeal to both the
general reader, as well as to those in the academic community. -- .
This book skilfully brings together cutting-edge historical
research by leading and emerging researchers in the field to
investigate the utilisation of British humour both during the
Second World War and its legacy in British popular culture. Linsey
Robb and Juliette Pattinson lead a cast of esteemed academics and
early career scholars to address a wide variety of situations in
which humour was generated and a diverse range of groups for whom
it was important. By addressing the overarching topic of humour
from a breadth of different perspectives (naval, intelligence,
Conscientious Objectors, medical artists) and by adopting an
original interpretative framework of home front sites (including
the Channel Islands), this books opens up the possibility for a
more variegated, richer analysis of Britain during the Second World
War. By using the lens of humour to scrutinize the social and
cultural history of Britain during the Second World War, it
promises to add critical nuance to our understanding of the
functioning of British wartime society. The result is a rich
addition to existing literature of use to students and scholars
studying the cultural history of war.
Women of war is an examination of gender modernity using the
world's longest established women's military organisation, the
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. These New Women's adoption of martial
uniform and military-style training, their inhabiting of public
space, their deployment of innovative new technologies such as the
motor car, the illustrated press, advertisements and cinematic film
and their proactive involvement in the First World War illustrate
why the Corps and its socially elite members are a particularly
revealing case study of gender modernity. Bringing into dialogue
both public and personal representations, it makes a major
contribution to the social and cultural history of Britain in the
early twentieth century and will appeal to undergraduates,
postgraduates and scholars working in the fields of military
history, animal studies, trans studies, dress history, sociology of
the professions, nursing history and transport history. -- .
Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British
culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a
range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV
and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and
propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The
enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its
ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with
stories of the Second World War being recounted through the
generations. This collection brings together recent historical work
on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family
stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of
commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.
Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British
culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a
range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV
and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and
propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The
enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its
ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with
stories of the Second World War being recounted through the
generations. This collection brings together recent historical work
on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family
stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of
commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.
This edited collection focuses on the negotiation of national,
geographic and cultural identities during the Second World War
among the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. Adopting a
four nations approach, it contributes to our understanding of how
pluralistic identities within the multinational state of Britain
informed the functioning of Britishness during the conflict. In
particular, it explores the ways in which Wales, Scotland and
England related to the overarching concept of Britishness and
analyses the relationships between Britain and the island of
Ireland. This volume addresses wartime Britain as both a site of
cultural contestation and of shared experience, exploring what
"fighting for Britain" meant for those who served in the British
armed forces as well as for those who did not fight in active
combatant roles.
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