Synopses & Reviews
Britain's role in the First World War has been portrayed through literature, films and plays with a marked un-historical, anti-war spirit. Deeply-rooted myths have thus become dominant and historians have either endorsed them, or have written narrowly for other specialists. As a result of the opening of official military archives and more objective study, these portrayals are now being challenged. This book traces the controversy from 1918 to the present, concluding that historians are finally permitting World War I to be placed in a more accurate perspective.
Synopsis
A study of myth and controversy in Britain's role in the First World War.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-124) and index.
About the Author
Brian Bond is Emeritus Professor of Military History, King's College London. One of Britain's leading military historians, he has been President of the British Commission for Military History since 1986.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 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; Bibliography; Sir Lees Knowles, 1857-1928.