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List of contents
Introduction – Writing the First World War after 1918: Journalism, history and commemoration 1. The Platform: How Pullman porters used railways to engage in networked journalism 2. The Aussie 1918-1931: Cartoons, digger remembrance and First World War identity 3. The Great War and "Military Memory": War and remembrance in the civic public sphere, 1919-1939 4. Whose War Was it Anyway: Irish journalism and the Great War after 1918 5. La Grande Guerre: The First World War in the journalism of French veterans 6. "The Vapourings of Empty Young Men?": Legacies of their hostility between 1916 and 1918 in British newspaper treatment of conscientious objectors during the German blitzkrieg and invasion scare of 1940 7. "The Truth About the War Finally": Critics’ expectations of war literature during the Weimar Republic: the reception of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues [All Quiet on the Western Front], 1928-1930 8. The Mediation of Constructions of Pacifism in Journey’s End and The Searcher, Two Contrasting Dramatic Memorials from the late 1920s 9. Reawakening the Nation: British journalists and the interwar debate on the origins of the First World War
About the author
Adrian Bingham is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research explores how the popular press has both reflected and shaped British society and culture. His most recent book is Tabloid Century: The Popular Press in Britain, 1896 to the Present (with Martin Conboy, 2015).
Summary
This book explores how print journalism was a powerful and persistent influence on public attitudes to, and memories of, the First World War in a range of participant nations, including Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, the United States and Australia. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Studies.
