Postcards from the Western Front: Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists after the Great War (Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies, 17) free ebook download.

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Author(s):	Mark Connelly

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0228011892
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Visitors to the battlefields of France and Belgium expressed pain and anguish, pride and nostalgia, and wonder and surprise at what they saw. Postcards from the Western Front chronicles the many ways in which these sites were perceived and commemorated by British people, both during the First World War and in the twenty years following the Armistice.

Mark Connellys definitive and engaging study of the former Western Front examines how different and distinctive sub-communities  regional, ethnic and religious, civilian and armed forces  influenced the depth and strength of the visiting publics relationship with the battlefields, all the while comparing and contrasting this relationship with the viewpoint of the French and Belgian inhabitants of the devastated regions. Connelly draws from a vast archive a number of interlocking themes, including the lingering presence of the battlefields in the British domestic imagination, the often fraught experience of visiting the battlefields, memorials and cemeteries functioning as part of a historical testimony to wartime realities, and the interactions between visitors and the people living in these former fighting zones.

Focusing on French and Belgian sites, Connelly nevertheless provides insight into other major battlefields fought over by troops from the British Empire. Extensively illustrated with black and white photographs,
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