This book is about the British experience of the First World War, the way that experience was
represented, in different media, and how those representations fed into the broader …

The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain's twentieth-century history. Between
August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her …

It is hard to believe that a decade of poetry could be summarily dismissed as a blackout
period for art; yet this is still the generally-held attitude towards the 1940s. A myth about this …

The First World War has left its imprint on British society and the popular imagination to an
extent almost unparalleled in modern history. Its legacy of mass death, mechanized …

What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914-18? This
compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new …

This book is the first study to provide a detailed critical and historical survey of British literary
culture in wartime. Concerned as much with war as with writing, it explores the significance …

What exactly is military history? Forty years ago it meant battles, campaigns, great
commanders, drums and trumpets. It was largely the preserve of military professionals and …

Literature and the English Civil War charts the relationship between literary texts and their
historical context during this era of profound change and upheaval for British society and …

Immortalised in Churchill's often quoted assertion that never before" was so much owed by
so many to so few", the top-down narrative of the Battle of Britain has been firmly established …

The Great War was the first in British history to involve virtually the entire population of
Britain. A vast quantity of poems, fiction, essays, speeches, letters, memoirs and other written …