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Todman, Dan - The First World War in Contemporary British Popular Culture

Keywords:

British popular culture | First World War | Second World War | Western Front

ISFWWS-Keywords:

Britain | Society | Culture | Literature | Great Britain | Culture | Experience of combat | Home fronts | Published memoirs and biographies | Experience of combat

Abstract:

Faced with the terrifying maelstrom of the Western Front, with apocalyptic artillery barrages and seemingly endless battles of attrition, it was natural enough for the soldiers of the First World War t…