Great World War 1914-1945

Name: Great World War 1914-1945
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ISBN: 9780007116188

ISBN-10: 0007116187

ISBN-13: 9780007116188

Edition: 2nd 2002

Authors: Peter Liddle

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This volume reveals the global impact of the two World Wars and their enduring legacy in the modern world. Boundaries were re-drawn, not just on the political map, but socially too; the wars brought women into the factories and even the frontline.

Book details

List price: $19.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Editors' Introduction



The Peoples' Experience



British children in wartime




The British experience of bombing




The experience of manipulation: propaganda in press and radio




The home front in Germany




'Frauen und Frass': German women in wartime




The impact of war on Russian society




Italy: extreme crisis, resistance and recovery




The Western Balkans




The experience of middle-class Japanese women




America




China




Colonial India: conflict, shortage and discontent




Australia




New Zealand: 'from the uttermost ends of the earth'




Canada: fact and fancy




South Africa




Black men in white men's wars




The French Empire




The Arab world




The Netherlands and Sweden: the experience of neutrality




The Cultural Experience



'A war of the imagination': the experience of the British artist




British fiction




Classical music




Leisure and entertainment




The Moral Experience



Keeping faith and coping: belief, popular religiosity and the British people




Ethics and weaponry




The opposition to war




Reflections



Reflections on total war in the 20th century




Apprehending memory: material culture and war, 1919-39




The Obligation of Remembrance or the Remembrance of Obligation: society and the memory of World War




Bibliographic sources for the study of the two World Wars



The contributors


Index