{"product_id":"the-great-war-western-front-and-home-front","title":"The Great War: Western Front and Home Front","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe have often heard about the brutal world of the trenches  the willingness of brave young soldiers and the apparent indifference of the generals  but reevaluations of the Great War in previous decades have shown us much more complexity  and in many cases some surprising reconstructions of very standard narratives of the war.  The traditional isolation of the battle front from the home front  which historians have tended to observe  has given us an incomplete understanding of both fronts. In this study of Word War I  Hunt Tooley crosses the boundaries of national histories to examine the various connections between the 400-mile-long Western Front and the home fronts of the United Kingdom  France  Germany  Canada  Australia and the United States. Tooley draws on recent research and the wealth of primary souce material available to provide a broad synthesis of a complex event  and to create a more holistic view of the war - as men stayed in touch with those at home  as governments responded to events on the battlefield  and as writers  poets and artists brought the cultural impulses of Europe to the deadly world of the Western Front.  In his clearly-written  wide-ranging study  Tooley argues that the seeds of much of the 20th century may have been planted well before the First World War  but - as many social critics  politicians  soldiers  womens movement leaders  and others predicted - the cultivation of these seeds in war would have a powerful and formative effect on the social  political and cultural processes which shaped the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44948933771317,"sku":"ByrdShop_1137471263","price":221.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781137471260_f32433a5-7da0-4d57-bb6c-69dc3b92ad52.jpg?v=1770539424","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-great-war-western-front-and-home-front","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}