03490nam 22007212 450 991044971110332120151005020622.01-107-12501-41-280-15953-70-511-12004-40-511-04211-60-511-15801-70-511-49615-X0-511-32263-10-511-04492-5(CKB)1000000000008236(EBL)202410(OCoLC)56314922(SSID)ssj0000265498(PQKBManifestationID)11227747(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000265498(PQKBWorkID)10295525(PQKB)11583560(UkCbUP)CR9780511496158(MiAaPQ)EBC202410(Au-PeEL)EBL202410(CaPaEBR)ebr10063454(CaONFJC)MIL15953(EXLCZ)99100000000000823620090306d2002|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe unquiet western front Britain's role in literature and history /Brian Bond[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2002.1 online resource (x, 128 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-03641-0 0-521-80995-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-124) and index.The Necessary War, 1914-1918 --Goodbye to All That, 1919-1933 --Donkeys and Flanders Mud the War Rediscovered in the 1960s --Thinking the Unthinkable the First World War as History --Sir Lees Knowles (1857-1928) --The Lees Knowles Lectures.Britain's outstanding military achievement in the First World War has been eclipsed by literary myths. Why has the Army's role on the Western Front been so seriously misrepresented? This 2002 book shows how myths have become deeply rooted, particularly in the inter-war period, in the 1960s, and in the 1990s. The outstanding 'anti-war' influences have been 'war poets', subalterns' trench memoirs, the book and film of All Quiet on the Western Front, and the play Journey's End. For a new generation in the 1960s the play and film of Oh What a Lovely War had a dramatic effect, while more recently Blackadder has been dominant. Until more recently, historians had either reinforced the myths, or had failed to counter them. This book follows the intense controversy from 1918 to the present, and concludes that historians are at last permitting the First World War to be placed in proper perspective.World War, 1914-1918Great BritainWorld War, 1914-1918CasualtiesWorld War, 1914-1918HistoriographyMilitary disciplineGreat BritainWorld War, 1914-1918CampaignsWestern FrontGreat BritainSocial conditions20th centuryWorld War, 1914-1918World War, 1914-1918Casualties.World War, 1914-1918Historiography.Military disciplineWorld War, 1914-1918Campaigns940.4/0941Bond Brian499795UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910449711103321The unquiet western front2471233UNINA