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Memories from the frontline : memoirs and meanings of the Great War from Britain, France and Germany

Title

Memories from the frontline : memoirs and meanings of the Great War from Britain, France and Germany / Jerry Palmer.

Author

Palmer, Jerry

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
©2018

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Description

x, 339 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in life writing

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in life writing.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Personal narratives – English.
Personal narratives – French.
Personal narratives – German.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

9783319780504
3319780506

OCLC

on1023548469
1023548469
SCSB-9077001

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries