British Women of the Eastern Front - War, Writing and Experience in Serbia and Russia, 191420

Informationen zum Autor Angela K. Smith is Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth Klappentext This book explores the experiences and contributions of British women performing active service across the Eastern Front in Serbia, Russia and Romania during the First World War, focusing on representation of that experience though a range of written records. Zusammenfassung This book explores the experiences and contributions of British women performing active service across the Eastern Front in Serbia! Russia and Romania during the First World War! focusing on representation of that experience though a range of written records. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The road East1. Travel writers and romantics2. Early days: the typhus colony and other stories3. Role call? The female body and gender Identity on the Eastern Front4. Waiting for the Allies: prisoners of war5. Domestic survival strategies: the Serbian Retreat, 19156. The road to revolution: Russia 1916-177. The aftermath and the legacy Select bibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Angela Smith, Angela K Smith, Angela K. Smith
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2016
• EAN: 9780719096181
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9618-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Europäische Geschichte, 1910 bis 1919 n. Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, European History, First World War, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Social and cultural history, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I