The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War

by Graham Seal

Why did millions of men agree to fight the most horrific war in history? And go on doing it, in many cases, for years? The question of consent is one of the many issues of the Great War that still haunt us today.

The soldiers of 1914-1918 created a large body of newspapers and magazines by, for and about themselves. Often misleadingly called 'trench journals', these rich archival sources have received surprisingly little sustained scholarly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137303255
• ISBN13: 9781137303257
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.3"