Death in War & Peace C

by Pat Jalland

Death in War and Peace is the first detailed historical study of experience of death, grief, and mourning in England in the fifty years after 1914. In it Professor Jalland explores the complex shift from a culture where death was accepted and grief was openly expressed before 1914, to one of avoidance and silence by the 1940s and thereafter. The two world wars had a profound and cumulative impact on the prolonged process of change in attitudes to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199265518
• ISBN13: 9780199265510
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"