Civvies: Middleâ "class Men on the English Home Front, 1914â "18

by Laura Ugolini

Book Overview

The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who - or so it seems - volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526116669
• ISBN13: 9781526116666
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"