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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817317203321

Autore

Liddle Peter

Titolo

Britain's Great War experience : life at home and abroad 1914-1918 / / Peter Liddle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : , : Pen & Sword Military, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4738-3832-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

940.341

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; EARLY DAYS; Eve and Outbreak; The Call to Arms; The British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium; The Response of Empire; WIDER HORIZONS; The War in the Air; The Dardanelles and Gallipoli; The Maritime Challenge; Soldiering in Distant Parts; THE HOME FRONT; Women and Children in Wartime; The Industrial Scene; Food Production, Economy and Rationing; Fund-Raising, Voluntary Endeavour and 'Life Continues'; Dissent; THE TEST WITHSTOOD; Civilian Internment; Serviceman Captivity; Western Front - The Somme to the End

The Armistice and BeyondIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Expertly written and beautifully presented, this book of outstanding photographs, documents and art work captures the spirit of the British people as they faced and successfully came through the prolonged challenge of the First World War. Using previously unpublished material from the Liddle Collection in the University Library at Leeds and supporting this with photographs from private and public collections from many parts of the British Isles, Britons Experience the Great War brings the experience of soldiers, sailors and airmen graphically close. It is, however, not just the fighting front