ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book says that, Lack of military success can easily give rise to dissent on the home front, which, taking the form of industrial unrest, may deprive the army of those things it requires to prevent new and greater defeats. The subject of what follows is the ways in which order was maintained on the British home front through to victory in 1918. Important work has been done here on what might be termed the 'positive' means by which civilian morale was sustained and the fruits of civilian endeavour maximized. We know that Lloyd George and other leading members of Clemenceau's administration were associated with the war against dissent, officially and unofficially. Tentative answers will be suggested for some of them in what follows. It was not that Britain was peculiarly without dissenters, just that the British government dealt with them particularly effectively.
