- Publisher: Tauris
- Year: 2016
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 246pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 215x137mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9781784534844
- Product code: 537787
- Other conditions available
Forever England
The Countryside at War 1914-1918
Caroline Dakers New Paperback Illustrated
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When war broke out in 1914 conscription seemed unnecessary; there was no shortage of volunteers ready to lay down their lives for England. In this book Caroline Dakers explores exactly what 'England' meant to the men and women who fought, died, survived. She suggests that, with a little subliminal help from literature, art and propaganda, the British volunteer, whether factory worker, farm hand or public school boy, felt that he was fighting for a vision of 'old England' - village, church, meadow and carthorse, rather than city, factory, commerce and motor car. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished papers and family archives, Dakers recreates the world of the countryside at war, through chapters on agriculture (literally 'the home front'), and life and death in the manor house, vicarage, school and farm. And while all this was being fought for, the French countryside was being smashed into a quagmire. This is the most complete picture yet of the impact of the World War I on rural England; a war which, if only in the ubiquitous village war memorials, still reverberates today.
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