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Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War
Language: en
Pages: 180
Authors: Michael J. K. Walsh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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Eric Bogle has written many iconic songs that deal with the futility and waste of war. Two of these in particular, ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ an
Churches, Chaplains and the Great War
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Hanneke Takken
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book is an international comparative study of the British, German and French military chaplains during the First World War. It describes their role, positi
Veterans of the First World War
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: David Swift
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-14 - Publisher: Routledge

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This volume synthesises the latest scholarship on First World War veterans in post-war Britain and Ireland, investigating the topic through its political, socia
Internment during the First World War
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Stefan Manz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-10 - Publisher: Routledge

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Although civilian internment has become associated with the Second World War in popular memory, it has a longer history. The turning point in this history occur
National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music
Language: en
Pages: 303
Authors: Peter Grant
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-09 - Publisher: Springer

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This book looks at the role of popular music in constructing the myth of the First World War. Since the late 1950s over 1,500 popular songs from more than forty