Memories from the Frontline

Memoirs and Meanings of The Great War from Britain, France and Germany

By:

Jerry Palmer

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Life Writing

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This book analyses soldiers’ memoirs from the Great War of 1914-18 from Britain, France and Germany. It considers both the authors’ composition of the memoirs and the public response to them. It provides contextual analysis through a survey of the different types of contemporary writing about the Great War, through an analysis of changes in the language used to describe combat, and through an analysis of those people whose accounts of the war were either excluded or marginalised. It also considers the international response to the most successful of the texts. The purpose of the analysis is to show how soldiers’ memoirs contributed to the collective memory of the war and how they influenced public opinion about the war. These texts are both autobiographical and historical and their relationship to the fields of autobiography and historical writing is also considered, as well as to the distinction between fact and fiction.

Author Biography:

Jerry Palmer is the former Professor of Communications at London Metropolitan University, UK and Visiting Professor of Sociology at City University. He is the author of six other books and many scholarly articles about popular culture and the mass media.

Release date NZ

January 10th, 2019

Author

Jerry Palmer

Series

Palgrave Studies in Life Writing

Pages

339

Edition

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

X, 339 p.

ISBN-13

9783030086091

Product ID

30448018

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