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Over the top : the Great War and juvenile literature in Britain by Paris, Michael, 1949- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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During the Great War, books and stories for young men were frequently used as unofficial propaganda for recruitment and to sell the war to British youth as a moral crusade. Until now, this literature has been neglected by academics, but the image of the war these fictions created was remarkably enduring and, despite the appearance of post-war literature of disillusioned veterans, continued to shape the attitudes of the young well into the 1930s. This is the first detailed account of how adventur
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Paris, Michael, 1949-
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO, LLC
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780275975180
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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