All Quiet on the Home Front
All Quiet on the Home Front

Author: Richard van Emden

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2017-04-30

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1473891965

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A “fascinating” look at hardship, heroism, and civilian life in England during the Great War (World War One Illustrated). The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British civilians during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, people who were there speak about experiences and events that have remained buried for decades. Their testimony shows the same candor and courage we have become accustomed to hearing from military veterans of this war. Those interviewed include a survivor of a Zeppelin raid in 1915; a Welsh munitions worker recruited as a girl; and a woman rescued from a bombed school after five days. There are also accounts of rural famine, bereavement, and the effects on families back home—and even the story of a woman who planned to kill her family to save them further suffering.

The Home Front, 1914-18
The Home Front, 1914-18

Author: Malcolm Chandler

Publisher: Heinemann

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780435327293

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Endorsed by Edexcel, this book covers the topic of Britian at home in World War I. It provides background information on the topic.

The Home Front 1914-1918
The Home Front 1914-1918

Author: Ian F.W. Beckett

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-12-31

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1472908899

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The Great War had a profound impact on Britain. Not only did families risk their sons in active combat; every member of society was required to make a contribution to the war effort. National initiatives like rationing affected all, and civilians were now regarded as a legitimate military target. Reminders of this turbulent time survive today, in rituals such as Summer Time and Remembrance, nationwide war memorials, and the powerful myth of a lost generation slaughtered in a futile war. Here Ian Beckett examines the mobilization of the British people for the war effort and reassesses its impact on state and society. As evidence, he presents 40 key documents, including the King's rallying cry to the nation to 'eat less wheat', reports on social phenomena from anti-German riots to the drinking habits of women and juveniles, and Kitchener's initiatives to raise his New Armies.

1914-1918
1914-1918

Author: David Stevenson

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780718197957

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Account of the major events of the First World War.

British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918
British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918

Author: Claire Brock

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-11-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781316637494

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When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon from the second half of the nineteenth century until the end of the Great War. Drawing on a rich archive of British hospital records, she investigates precisely what surgery women performed and how these procedures affected their personal and professional reputation, as well as the reactions of their patients to these new phenomena. Essential reading for those interested in the history of medicine, British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918 provides wide-ranging new perspectives on patient narratives and women's participation in surgery between 1860 and 1918. This title is also available as Open Access.

Great War, Total War
Great War, Total War

Author: Roger Chickering

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-09-11

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9780521773522

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World War I was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict, and it led to the concept of total war. The essays in this volume analyze the experience of the war in light of this concept's implications, in particular the erosion of distinctions between the military and civilian spheres.

A Home Front Diary, 1914-1918
A Home Front Diary, 1914-1918

Author: Lillie Scales

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781445618968

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Fascinating, insightful, and incredibly moving - the First World War Home Front through one woman's eyes

Facing Armageddon
Facing Armageddon

Author: Hugh Cecil

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2003-04-01

Total Pages: 974

ISBN-13: 1473813972

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Facing Armageddon is the first scholarly work on the 1914-18 War to explore, on a world-wide basis, the real nature of the participants experience. Sixty-four scholars from all over the globe deliver the fruits of recent research in what civilians and servicemen passed through, in the air, on the sea and on land.