What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented nu
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This book is the first to explore depictions of the Second World War in films made a generation later, between 1962 and
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On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Emp
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Of interest to historians, classicists, media and digital theorists, literary scholars, museologists, and archivists, Me
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Why does the Great War seem part of modern memory when its rituals of mourning and remembrance were traditional, romanti
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One of the most resilient images of the Vietnam era is that of the anti-war protester often a woman spitting on the
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*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents &quo
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The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futil
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After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, depo
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War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor features carnage and cannibalism, gender and cross-dressing, drunks and heroes, m
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