The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History

by Brian Bond

Book Overview

Britain's outstanding military achievement in the First World War has been eclipsed by literary myths. Why has the Army's role on the Western Front been so seriously misrepresented? This 2002 book shows how myths have become deeply rooted, particularly in the inter-war period, in the 1960s, and in the 1990s. The outstanding 'anti-war' influences have been 'war poets', subalterns' trench memoirs, the book and film of All Quiet on the Western Front,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521036410
• ISBN13: 9780521036412
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"