Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives

by Shafquat Towheed and Edmund King

Book Overview

Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and preferences of men and women, combatants and civilians, during the First World War. This is the first study of the conflict from the perspective of readers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137302704
• ISBN13: 9781137302700
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"