Reporting the Great War News from the Home Front

Afbeeldingen

Artikel vergelijken

  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781783463572
  • 01 november 2014
  • 224 pagina's
Alle productspecificaties

Samenvatting

The Great War of 1914-1918 was the world's first total conflict. It drew the whole population into the war effort as never before. The armed forces recruited on a scale that was previously unimaginable, and the munitions industries drew more and more citizens into the labour market. The entire national economy was thrown onto a war footing. The local newspapers of those years provide a unique picture of these momentous changes, and Reporting the Great War uses their words to recapture the experience of the time. It illustrates in telling detail the human tragedies and triumphs of a nation at war and the day-to-day preoccupations of communities trying to find normality during an unprecedented emergency. Sections of the population were gripped by 'hun-phobia' - the fear that everything Germanic was an agent of the enemy. Terror of aerial attack and the shortages caused by the German submarine blockade brought the reality of war close to home. Unfamiliar terms entered the national vocabulary - conscription, conscientious objection, rationing - and pre-war assumptions, from the role of women to the use of alcohol, were challenged and changed. Stuart Hylton's fascinating account of the British home front during the Great War, as it was seen through the newspaper columns of the day, shows a nation seemingly sleepwalking into a war in 1914 and emerging, four years later, with the hope that a better world would come with the peace.

Productspecificaties

Inhoud

Taal
en
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
01 november 2014
Aantal pagina's
224
Illustraties
Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur
Stuart Hylton
Tweede Auteur
Stuart
Hoofduitgeverij
Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Overige kenmerken

Extra groot lettertype
Nee
Product breedte
156 mm
Product hoogte
24 mm
Product lengte
234 mm
Studieboek
Nee
Verpakking breedte
156 mm
Verpakking hoogte
234 mm
Verpakking lengte
234 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
540 g

EAN

EAN
9781783463572
Nog geen reviews

Prijsinformatie en bestellen

De prijs van dit product is 19 euro en 95 cent.
Op voorraad
Nu besteld, dinsdag in huis
  • Bestellen en betalen via bol
  • Prijs inclusief verzendkosten, verstuurd door Barksdale Books
  • Ophalen bij een bol afhaalpunt mogelijk
  • 30 dagen bedenktijd en gratis retourneren
  • Wettelijke garantie via Barksdale Books

Lijst met gekozen artikelen om te vergelijken

Vergelijk artikelen