The Great World War 1914-45: The People's Experience

by Liddle, Peter; Bourne, J. M.; Whitehead, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780007116331
• ISBN10: 0007116330
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Marshall Pickering

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	7	(2)
Editors' Introduction	9	(4)
PART I THE PEOPLES' EXPERIENCE
British children in wartime	13	(16)
Eric Hopkins
The British experience of bombing	29	(12)
Adam Smith
The experience of manipulation: propaganda in press and radio	41	(16)
Stephen Badsey
Philip M. Taylor
The home front in Germany	57	(17)
Heinz Hagenlucke
`Frauen und Fraβ': German women in wartime	74	(20)
Ingrid Sharp
The impact of war on Russian society	94	(12)
Sergei Kudryashov
Italy: extreme crisis, resistance and recovery	106	(15)
Marco Pluviano
Irene Guerrini
The Western Balkans	121	(19)
Peter Caddick-Adams
The experience of middle-class Japanese women	140	(14)
Naoko Shimazu
America	154	(10)
James J. Cooke
China	164	(18)
Diana Lary
Colonial India: conflict, shortage and discontent	182	(15)
Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Australia	197	(14)
Joan Beaumont
New Zealand: `from the uttermost ends of the earth'	211	(22)
Christopher Pugsley
Canada: fact and fancy	233	(10)
Dean F. Oliver
South Africa	243	(14)
Bill Nasson
Black men in white men's wars	257	(18)
Bernard Waites
The French Empire	275	(16)
Philip Dine
The Arab world	291	(18)
Tarif Khalidi
The Netherlands and Sweden: the experience of neutrality	309	(22)
Bob Moore
Susanne Wolf
Paul M. Binding
PART II THE CULTURAL EXPERIENCE
`A war of the imagination': the experience of the British artist	331	(17)
Paul Gough
British fiction	348	(13)
Hugh Cecil
Classical music	361	(17)
Donald Webster
Leisure and entertainment	378	(19)
Matthew Taylor
PART III THE MORAL EXPERIENCE
Keeping faith and coping: belief, popular religiosity and the British people	397	(24)
Michael F. Snape
Stephen G. Parker
Ethics and weaponry	421	(14)
Edward M. Spiers
The opposition to war	435	(17)
Martin Ceadel
PART IV REFLECTIONS
Reflections on total war in the 20th century	452	(24)
Imanuel Geiss
Apprehending memory: material culture and war, 1919-39	476	(13)
Nicholas Saunders
The Obligation of Remembrance or the Remembrance of Obligation: society and the memory of World War	489	(20)
Bob Bushaway
Bibliographic sources for the study of the two World Wars	509	(12)
Peter T. Scott
The contributors	521	(14)
Index	535