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Home front heroism
Civilians and conflict in Second World War London
By Ellena Matthews
Home front heroism investigates how civilians were recognised and celebrated as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how heroism was manufactured as ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6212-0
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£85.00
Buy NowPicturing the Western Front
Photography, practices and experiences in First World War France
By Dr Beatriz Pichel
Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Either classified in military archives specially created with this purpose in 1915, collected in ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7200-6
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£20.00
Buy NowThe bad German and the good Italian
Removing the guilt of the Second World War
By Filippo Focardi
Translated by Dr Paul Barnaby
In the Axis War on the side of Germany, Mussolini's Italy was responsible for serious war crimes, especially in Yugoslavia and Greece. This 'dark side' of the fascist war, however, is not present ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5713-3
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£85.00
Buy NowHaunted Britain
Spiritualism, psychical research and the Great War
By Kyle Falcon
The Great War haunted the British Empire. Shell shocked soldiers relived the war's trauma through waking nightmares consisting of mutilated and grotesque figures. Modernist writers released ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6497-1
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£85.00
Buy NowAfterlives of war
A descendants' history
By Michael Roper
Afterlives of war documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations who grew up in Australia, Britain and Germany after the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5403-3
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Hardcover
£25.00
Buy NowDying for the nation
Death, grief and bereavement in Second World War Britain
By Lucy Noakes
Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communities who have to find ways to manage death, to ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6391-2
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£26.00
Buy NowCreating the people's war
Civil defence communities in Second World War Britain
By Jessica Hammett
Why has the 'people's war' been such a durable and attractive myth? Creating the people's war examines how civil defence personnel engaged with this narrative during the war and in the following ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6241-0
FORMAT:
£80.00
Buy NowA new naval history
Edited by Quintin Colville and James Davey
A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1381-8
FORMAT:
£30.00
Buy NowThe unimagined community
Imperialism and culture in South Vietnam
By Duy Lap Nguyen
The unimagined community proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam War from a perspective that has been largely excluded from historical accounts of the conflict, that of the South Vietnamese. ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6250-2
FORMAT:
£25.00
Buy NowMartial masculinities
Experiencing and imagining the military in the long nineteenth century
Edited by Michael Brown, Anna Maria Barry and Joanne Begiato
This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of the greatest wars the world had ever known. It ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6044-7
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£30.00
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