The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939

by Mark Connelly

This detailed case study of a part of London shows how both the survivors and the bereaved sought to come to terms with the losses and implications of the Great War.

The modern idea that the Great War was regarded as a futile waste of life by British society in the disillusioned 1920s and 1930s is here called into question by Mark Connelly. Through a detailed local study of a district containing a wide variety of religious, economic and social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861933273
• ISBN13: 9780861933273
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Royal Historical Society
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"