The Great War and the British People

by Jay Murray Winter

Book Overview

The Great War and the British People is a classic study of the impact of war on the men who fought and on the communities they defended. It provides the authoritative account of the 'Lost Generation', in terms of mobilization, casualties, and memory, and contrasts that history with another history, one of massive improvements in the well-being of the home population. A war of unprecedented carnage was also a war which improved the heath of the British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674362128
• ISBN13: 9780674362123
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.