Memories from the Frontline: Memoirs and Meanings of the Great War from Britain, France and Germany

by Jerry Palmer

Book Overview

This book analyses soldiers' memoirs from the Great War of 1914-18 from Britain, France and Germany. It considers both the authors' composition of the memoirs and the public response to them. It provides contextual analysis through a survey of the different types of contemporary writing about the Great War, through an analysis of changes in the language used to describe combat, and through an analysis of those people whose accounts of the war were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030086097
• ISBN13: 9783030086091
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"