Dan Todman: The Great War | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futility of war. Generals, safe in their headquarters behind the lines, sent millions of men to their deaths to gain a few hundred yards of ground. Writers, notably Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, provided unforgettable images of the idiocy and tragedy of the war. Yet this vision of the war is at best a partial one, the war only achieving its status as the worst of wars in the last thirty years. At the time, the war aroused emotions of pride and patriotism. Not everyone involved remembered the war only for its miseries. The generals were often highly professional and indeed won the war in 1918. In this original and challenging book, Dan Todman shows views of the war have changed over the last ninety years and how a distorted image of it emerged and became dominant.

Über den Autor

Dan Todman is Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London and previously taught military history at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Zusammenfassung

Todman's book has the potential to be extremely controversial. It seeks to vindicate the generals, and argues that the First World War inspired widespread patriotic emotion at home and at the front. Through its interest in the cultural reception to the war, it updates Paul Fussell's enormously influential The Great War and Modern Memory (1976), while diverging from many of the earlier work's conclusions. The book will attract significant media attention as a piece of bold revisionism. Ideally suited to paperback format, as a major contribution to cultural history.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Mud
2 Death
3 Donkeys
4 Futility
5 Poets
6 Veterans
7 Modern Memory
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781852855123
ISBN-10:	1852855126
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Todman, Dan
Hersteller:	Continnuum-3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Dan Todman
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.01.2007
Gewicht:	0,494 kg