- Hardcover: 376 pages
- Publisher: Longman; 1 edition (21 Jun 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0582061385
- ISBN-13: 978-0582061385
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.6 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #65 in Books > History > Britain & Ireland > Edwardian and Early 20th Century 1901-1913
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'well worth reading'.The Times 'well written and very readable...can be highly recommended'African History 'an important contribution to our knowledge of the background to British policy-making in 1918 and 1919'English Historical Review "The author's skill in blending social history with a narrative of the main political developments makes Blighty well-suited for student use. In many respects it provides a model of what this genre should be like."Albion
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'well worth reading'.The Times 'well written and very readable...can be highly recommended'African History 'an important contribution to our knowledge of the background to British policy-making in 1918 and 1919'English Historical Review "The author's skill in blending social history with a narrative of the main political developments makes Blighty well-suited for student use. In many respects it provides a model of what this genre should be like."Albion
--This text refers to the
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edition.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Gerard J. De Groot's, "Blighty" stands out amongst histories of the Great War from the British perspective. In it he tells the story of how the war affected much more than that relatively narrow strip of land called the Western Front and relates the impact it had upon British society as a whole.
The book sheds new light on many strongly held beliefs about the war, such as that most women worked in the munitions factories. In fact, the largest source of employment for female labour remaine domestic service despite the massive increase in armaments production. But this is to pick out only one very small element within a huge subject.
In this respect this book stands with Trevor Wilson's, "The Myriad Faces of War", ambitious in its range but soundly based upon a mountain of research. No understanding of the British experience in the Great War can be complete without reading this book (and Trevor Wilson's). Buy it - you won't be disappointed.
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This is a 1996 book covering the same subject as The Deluge: British Society and the First World War, by Arthur Marwick (read by me with much appreciation 20 Oct 1985), and anyone interested in Britain at home during the Great War will be caught up by this book. Especially worthwhile to me was Chapter 14, entitled "The Dead, the Living, and the Living Dead" which considers memorials and observances of the men who served in the War. An especially attractive feature of DeGroot's style is his frequent quoting from wartime poetry. For instance, I was struck by these evocative lines quoted from Ivor Gurney:
He's gone, and all our plans
Are useless indeed;
We'll walk no more on Cotswold
Where the sheep feed
Quietly and take no heed.
There is an excellent bibliography and I counted 24 books therein which I have read. But of course there are books therein which I would like to read, if I live long enough--as is always true in a good bibliography in a book on a fascinating subject such as the subject of this book.
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