Playing Soldier: The Books and Toys That Prepared Children for War, 1871-1918

by Richard Cheek

The ways books, magazines, printed ephemera, and toys relating to military life and wartime experience were used to persuade boys to admire, and aspire to become, soldiers and sailors are illuminated in this lively catalogue, which accompanied a Grolier Club exhibition. Covering the period 1871-1918, Richard Cheek shows that young people were encouraged to accept war as an inevitable form of human behavior that offered them a swift path to manhood,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B07KPR9M31
• ISBN13: 9781605830766
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Grolier Club
• Length: 471 Pages
• Weight: 6.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 9.7" x 12.1"