The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War

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The Last Great War
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Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The war that did not end all wars
	Popular memory and historical understanding
	Remembering the home front
Going to war
	Jingoism and war enthusiasm: the myth of 1914
	Wales in early August 1914
	London in early August 1914
	The public mood up to the outbreak of war
	Mobilisation and the outbreak of war
	Recruiting
	Ambivalence and ambiguity
	Conclusions
Defining the enemy: Atrocities and propaganda 1914–1915
	Lies and half-truths about the war
	Propaganda: the ‘black legend’
	The Daily Mail: reporting atrocities
	Home fires
	The Daily Mail: constructing the Hun
	Story-telling: atrocities and other wartime tales
	Atrocities, propaganda and the war
From spectatorship to participation; From volunteering to compulsion 1914–1916
	Spectators
	Volunteers
	Scots wha’ ha’e with Wallace bled
	On not volunteering
	The voluntary ethic
	Compulsion
	Duty and sacrifices
Economies of sacrifice
	The value of blood
	‘Cook’s son, Duke’s son, son of a belted Earl’
		Death in Croydon
	Norfolk farmers and others
	The importance of timing
	Soldiers and civilians
	Profiteers
	Somebody else’s dustbin
	‘Other bugger’s efforts’
Redemption through war: Religion and the languages of sacrifice
	Clad in glittering white
	The background
	Patriotism is not enough
	The National Mission, 1916
	Chapels
	Religion: the laity
The conditional sacrifices of labour 1915–1918
	The industrial truce and its limitations
	Industrial unrest
	The revolt of labour
	The potential revolt of the middle classes
Struggling to victory 1917–1918
	The Christmas crisis
	Moments from Ethel Bilsborough’s war
	‘The Tank Bank’: deciphering the geography of patriotism in 1918?
	Enemies within
	The changing pattern of anti-Germanism? From riots to associations
	The spread of hatred
	The hidden hand
The last war?
	Remembering
	War debts
	Sites of mourning?
	Supporting the living
	Redemption through victory?
	Disillusionment?
	Hitler’s wreath
Conclusion
	War experiences
	Lost worlds
	The myths of war experience
Notes
	INTRODUCTION
	CHAPTER 1
	CHAPTER 2
	CHAPTER 3
	CHAPTER 4
	CHAPTER 5
	CHAPTER 6
	CHAPTER 7
	CHAPTER 8
	Conclusion
Index