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Home Front Heroism - Civilians And Conflict In Second World War London

by Ellena Matthews

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 Home front heroism explores how civilians were framed as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how the effects and demands of conflict created increased opportunities for heroics, and created a need for heroism to be acknowledged, awarded and celebrated. -- .
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Little Wars Of Empire - British Veterans In A Colonial World, C.1885â€“1918

by Taylor (Assistant Professor) Soja

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 Little Wars of Empire is first history of British multi-war veterans â€" the soldiers, nurses, and military families who experienced both colonial wars in the British empire and the First World War. Using their personal archives, it works to understand how at the turn of the twentieth century, colonization and militarization were interdependent. -- .
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Statelessness After Arendt - European Refugees In China And The Pacific During The Second World War

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 This book is a study of statelessness in the period of the Second World War. It breaks new ground by focusing not on Europe, but on the Asian and Pacific theatres of the conflict. This perspective enables us to go beyond Hannah Arendtâ€™s classic account of statelessness in her Origins of Totalitarianism. -- .
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Medical Care, Humanitarianism And Intimacy In The Long Second World War, 1931-1953

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Medical Care, Humanitarianism And Intimacy In The Long Second World War, 1931-1953

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 This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and medical care during the long Second World War, tracing circulations of humanitarian actors, discourses, knowledge, and practices across the world from the war in China in 1931 to the Korean War in 1953. -- .
Joining Up In The Second World War - Enlistment, Masculinity And The Memory Of The Great War

by Joel Morley

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 Joining up explores menâ€™s encounters with representations of the First World War in interwar Britain, and illuminates how these informed their understandings of the First World War and how those understandings shaped their attitudes to Second World War enlistment and their conceptions of masculinity in wartime Britain. -- .
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Statelessness After Arendt - European Refugees In China And The Pacific During The Second World War

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 This book is a study of statelessness in the period of the Second World War. It breaks new ground by focusing not on Europe, but on the Asian and Pacific theatres of the conflict. This perspective enables us to go beyond Hannah Arendtâ€™s classic account of statelessness in her Origins of Totalitarianism. -- .
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Home Front Heroism - Civilians And Conflict In Second World War London

by Ellena Matthews

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 Home front heroism investigates how civilians were recognised and celebrated as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how heroism was manufactured as civilians adopted roles in production, protection and defence, through the use of uniforms and medals, and through the way that civilians were injured and killed. This book makes a novel contribution to the study of heroism by exploring the spatial, material, corporeal and ritualistic dimensions of heroic representations. By tracing the different ways that home front heroism was cultivated on a national, local and personal level, this study promotes new ways of thinking about the meaning and value of heroism during periods of conflict. It will appeal to anyone interested in the social and cultural history of Second World War as well as the sociology and psychology of heroism.
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The Bad German And The Good Italian - Removing The Guilt Of The Second World War

by Filippo Focardi

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 In the Axis War on the side of Germany, Mussolini's Italy was responsible for serious war crimes, especially in Yugoslavia and Greece. This 'dark side' of the fascist war, however, is not present in the national memory built after 1945. To distinguish Italy from the former German ally and avoid a punitive peace, the monarchist and anti-fascist ruling classes elaborated a master narrative that highlighted the opposition of the Italian people to Mussolini's war and the humanitarian behavior of Italian soldiers, depicted as saviors of Jews. All responsibility for the crimes committed in the Axis war was placed on the shoulders of the Germans, who thus became a convenient alibi for the national conscience.
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Haunted Britain - Spiritualism, Psychical Research And The Great War

by Kyle Falcon

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 The Great War haunted the British Empire. Shell shocked soldiers relived the war’s trauma through waking nightmares consisting of mutilated and grotesque figures. Modernist writers released memoirs condemning the war as a profane and disenchanting experience. Yet British and Dominion soldiers and their families also read prophecies about the coming new millennium, experimented with séances, and claimed to see the ghosts of their loved ones in dreams and in photographs. On the battlefields, they had premonitions and attributed their survival to angelic, psychic, or spiritual forces. For many, the war was an enchanting experience that offered proof of another world and the transcendental properties of the mind. Between 1914 and 1939, an array of ghosts lived in the minds of British subjects as they navigated the shocking toll that death in modern war exerted in their communities.
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Picturing The Western Front - Photography, Practices And Experiences In First World War France

by Dr Beatriz Pichel

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 Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Classified in archives, collected in personal albums and circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. This book argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civiliansâ€™ war experiences. -- .
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The Bad German And The Good Italian - Removing The Guilt Of The Second World War

by Filippo Focardi

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 This book describes how Italy elaborated a master narrative of the Second World War that evades the faults of Mussolini's fascist war by attributing all responsibility on the shoulders of the German ally -- .
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Afterlives Of War - A Descendants' History

by Michael Roper

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 This book documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations in Australia, Britain and Germany who grew up in the shadow of the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to the conflict, through the intimate experience of coming after, they have played a key role in shaping the memory of the First World War since 1918 -- .
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Creating The People’S War - Civil Defence Communities In Second World War Britain

by Jessica Hammett

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 Civil defence was the most significant voluntary organisation of the Second World War. It involved men and women of every class, generation and locality in Britain. This book examines how civil defence personnel developed local workplace communities, engaged with ideas about civil duty, and helped to create the myth of the â€˜peopleâ€™s warâ€™. -- .
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Dying For The Nation - Death, Grief And Bereavement In Second World War Britain

by Lucy Noakes

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 Drawing on a range of material, the book demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime â€" not just to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones, but to the state, tasked with managing the deaths of its citizens in conflict. -- .
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Martial Masculinities - Experiencing And Imagining The Military In The Long Nineteenth Century

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 This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society. -- .
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Europe On The Move - Refugees In The Era Of The Great War

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 Europe on the move is the first book to address the dramatic and poignant refugee crisis that erupted during the First World War and that enveloped the entire continent. Written by specialists in the field it will appeal to all those who are interested in the era of the First World War and in Europeâ€™s first major refugee crisis. -- .
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A New Naval History

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 This volume brings together a diverse selection of the latest academic research in the field of naval history. It is the first publication to capture a new form of naval history that engages with race, sexuality, gender, material culture, popular culture and fine art. -- .
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Creating The Peopleâ€™S War - Civil Defence Communities In Second World War Britain

by Jessica (Esrc New Investigator) Hammett

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 Civil defence was the most significant voluntary organisation of the Second World War. It involved men and women of every class, generation and locality in Britain. This book examines how civil defence personnel developed local workplace communities, engaged with ideas about civil duty, and helped to create the myth of the â€˜peopleâ€™s warâ€™. -- .
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Experience Of Occupation In The Nord, 1914-18 - Living With The Enemy In First World War France

by James E. Connolly

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 A study of actual and perceived French civilian behaviours under German military occupation in 1914-18, from complicity and criminality to forms of resistance. Providing a new conceptual vocabulary, the book posits that an â€˜occupied cultureâ€™ existed and guided civilian responses to the German presence, and each other. -- .
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Behind Enemy Lines - Gender, Passing And The Special Operations Executive In The Second World War

by Juliette Pattinson

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 Behind Enemy Lines draws on personal testimonies, official records and film to explore the experiences of male and female clandestine agents who were recruited and trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during the Second World War. -- .
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Munich Crisis, Politics And The People - International, Transnational And Comparative Perspectives

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 Bringing together leading historians, this volume offers a vital and timely reassessment of Munich Crisis of 1938 from the point of view of the politicians, the people, and public opinion. It takes into account the profound social, cultural, and psychological effects of the crisis, hitherto neglected aspects of this clash between democracy and dictatorship. -- .
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The Munich Crisis, Politics And The People - International, Transnational And Comparative Perspectives

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 Bringing together leading historians, this volume offers a vital and timely reassessment of Munich Crisis of 1938 from the point of view of the politicians, the people, and public opinion. It takes into account the profound social, cultural, and psychological effects of the crisis, hitherto neglected aspects of this clash between democracy and dictatorship. -- .
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Picturing The Western Front - Photography, Practices And Experiences In First World War France

by Dr Beatriz Pichel

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 Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Classified in archives, collected in personal albums and circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. This book argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civiliansâ€™ war experiences. -- .
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Brothers In The Great War - Siblings, Masculinity And Emotions

by Linda Maynard

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 A study of the emotional experiences of brothers and sisters in the First World War and its aftermath. Affectionate sibling bonds sustained the war generation both at home and on the front line, providing a lateral perspective on our understanding of domestic and military masculinities and the longevity of wartime grief and commemoration. -- .
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