ABSTRACT
Despite the voluminous historical literature on the First World War, a volume devoted to the theme of communication has yet to appear. From the communication of war aims and objectives to the communication of war call-up and war experience and knowledge, this volume fills the gap in the market, including the work of both established and newly emerging scholars working on the First World War across the globe. The volume includes chapters that focus on the experience of belligerent and also neutral powers, thus providing a genuinely representative dimension to the subject.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|22 pages
Writing a war of words
Negotiating trench warfare in Andrew Clark’s ‘English Words in War-Time’
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chapter 3|23 pages
‘Spreading fields of victory’?
The reporting of Gallipoli, Jutland and the Somme in The War Illustrated
chapter 4|31 pages
Fake news or an education in war? Communicating war aims to the British public in its early phases
The Oxford Pamphlets 1914–1915
chapter 5|20 pages
Desperately seeking the centre
Critiques of U.S. propaganda posters during a ‘highbrow’ versus ‘lowbrow’ age
chapter 8|18 pages
‘Continuing the mission’
The First World War and the roots of Red Scare violence, 1919–1921
chapter 9|31 pages
International propaganda in Spain during the First World War
State of the art and new contributions
chapter 10|18 pages
Great expectations
The latency of the First World War in Republican Portugal, 1914–1916
chapter 12|26 pages
War-time and post-war medical communication
The role of the U.S. Army Medical Library