Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 The necessary war, 1914-1918; 2 Goodbye to all that, 1919-1933; 3 Donkeys and Flanders mud the war rediscovered in the 1960s; 4 Thinking the unthinkable the First World War as history; Sir Lees Knowles (1857-1928); The Lees Knowles lectures; Notes; Select bibliography; Index
Summary
Britain's role in the First World War has been portrayed mainly through literature, films and plays, in most cases with a marked un-historical, anti-war spirit. This book follows the controversy from 1918 to the present, and concludes that historians are finally permitting the War to be placed in proper perspective
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-124) and index
