Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
For Country, Conscience and Commerce: Publishers and Publishing, 1914–18....Pages 11-26
‘No such bookselling has ever before taken place in this country’: Propaganda and the Wartime Distribution Practices of W.H. Smith & Son....Pages 27-45
Translating Peace: Pacifist Publishing and the Transmission of Foreign Texts....Pages 46-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Sepoys, Sahibs and Babus: India, the Great War and Two Colonial Journals....Pages 61-77
The Battle of the Books: Supplying Prisoners of War....Pages 78-92
Australian Soldiers and the World of Print During the Great War....Pages 93-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
The Tuition of Manhood: ‘Sapper’s’ War Stories and the Literature of War....Pages 113-128
British Army Trench Journals and a Geography of Identity....Pages 129-147
‘A New and Vital Moral Factor’: Cartoon Book Publishing in Britain During the First World War....Pages 148-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Translating Propaganda: John Buchan’s Writing During the First World War....Pages 181-201
Making a Text the Fordian Way: Between St Dennis and St George, Propaganda and the First World War....Pages 202-214
Depicting the War on the Western Front: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Publication of The British Campaign in France and Flanders....Pages 215-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-241