Kitchener's Last Volunteers and their World

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-138-06211-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in First World War History

Public remembrance of the Great War of 1914-1918 continues to flourish, with each new generation adding its own interpretations and understandings of the most influential event of the twentieth century. The last participants may have died, but their war remains alive. Scholars continue to try to make sense of what, in hindsight, still may appear to be, at best, a major caesura and, at worst, a social and cultural disaster.

This book is a collective biography of 984 men and young boys who were among the last soldiers to volunteer for service in World War I but differs from previous studies in it is based on quantitative evidence of a scholarly nature, not just on the war years, but on the decades before.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Durey, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Social World of Edwardian South London 2. Raising the Battalion 3. Training the Originals 4. The Somme: Dismembering the Originals 5. The Aftermath of the Somme in London 6. The Long Slog: Continuity and Change, 1917 and 1918 7. Aftermath

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Durey is Emeritus Professor of History at Murdoch University, Australia