Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521831536)

Janet Watson's study of war and memory uses published and unpublished British wartime and retrospective writings concerning World War I. Watson examines differing attitudes to this war among men and women, across different social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.

Author: Janet S. K. Watson
ISBN-10: 0521831539
ISBN-13: 9780521831536
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/19/2004
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.32w x 1.05d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2004 pg. 726