Memories from the Frontline Memoirs and Meanings of The Great War from Britain, France and Germany /

• Main Author: Palmer, Jerry (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; European literature.; British literature.; Military history.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; European Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; History of Military.

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 ab...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Great War genes
• 2. Marginal Voices
• 3. Language and Combat
• 4. Themes in British reviews of Great War memoirs
• 5. Blunder, Undertones of War and De Bello Germanico
• 6. Reading Lawrence of Arabia in 1927
• 7. Henry d'Estre, From Oran to Arras
• 8. Reading Barbusse, Under Fire in 1917
• 9. Genevoix, The Men of 14
• 10. The Norton Cru affair
• 11. War memoirs and German politics in the 1920s
• 12. Contrasting versions of nationalism at war's end
• 13. Renn, War
• 14. von Salomon, The Outlaws (Les Réprouvés)
• 15. Transnational comparisons.