Fighting Different Wars
Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain
Part of Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- Author: Janet S. K. Watson, University of Connecticut
- Date Published: January 2007
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521035491
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Janet Watson's study of war and memory uses published and unpublished British wartime and retrospective writings concerning World War I. Watson examines differing attitudes to this war among men and women, across different social classes, and in different periods. She concludes that participants often saw their experience - lived and remembered- as either work or service. In fact, far from having a united front, many active participants were 'fighting different wars', and this process only continued in the decades following peace.
Read more- Offers an interesting perspective on the war by separating out the wartime from the retrospective accounts
- Watson offers an alternative to the disillusioned view of the war by putting it in broader context
- Draws upon very substantive original wartime and retrospective texts - many previously unknown and unpublished
Reviews & endorsements
"This is a useful and thought-provoking book. Undergraduates of history and literature should be encouraged to read it both for the light it sheds on the British experience of the First World War and for the way it illustrates the contrast between strictly contemporary evidence and primary sources molded by the retrospection of just a few years. Historians should welcome it for highlighting how perceptions of the war came to be dominated by stories of disillusionment and futility."
Gervase Phillips, Manchester Metropolitan University, H-WarSee more reviews"Janet Watson has crafted a heavily researched [and] concisely written scholarly book."
Cameraderie"Compelling... a fresh look at the subject of war and memory and should be read by anyone interested in Britain during and after the First World War."
Journal of British Studies"...a major addition to the literature on World War I..."
American Historical Review"One of the best and most important books on the cultural history of Britain's 'Great War' yet produced... an extremely fine book."
H-Albion"Watson's book examining the impact of war on British women fills a definite gap in our knowledge of the conflict...Watson's study is highly interesting thanks to her constant awareness of the diversity of conditions and factors influencing the way a person experienced the war." Journal of Modern History Mark Connelly, University of Kent
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- Date Published: January 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521035491
- length: 352 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.528kg
- contains: 13 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: experience, memory and the Great War
Part I. Experience and the War:
1. Soldiers and 'khaki girls': men and women in military and paramilitary organisations
2. The healing of her men: amateur and professional hospital workers
3. Other armies: auxiliary war workers
4. A family at war: the Beales of Standen
Part II. Memory and the War:
5. The soldier's story: publishing and the postwar years
6. Creating disillusionment in popular memory
7. Still fighting: memory enters history
Conclusion: climbing out of the trenches
Select bibliography
Index.
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