Joining Up in the Second World War : Enlistment, Masculinity and the Memory of the Great War

Name: Joining Up in the Second World War
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9781526157232
Price: 15300 KES
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ISBN: 9781526157232

by Joel Morley

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cultural History of Modern War

ISBN-10 1526157233

ISBN-13 9781526157232

Publisher Manchester University Press

Imprint Manchester University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 29th, 2025

Print length 312 Pages

Weight 518 grams

Dimensions 22.20 x 14.90 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Social & cultural history Oral history First World War Second World War History Social and cultural history Oral history First World War Second World War

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Joining up explores men’s encounters with representations of the First World War in interwar Britain, and illuminates how these informed their understandings of the First World War and how those understandings shaped their attitudes to Second World War enlistment and their conceptions of masculinity in wartime Britain. -- .

This book connects the First and Second World Wars. It uses oral histories and Mass Observation material to explore men?s attitudes to Second World War enlistment and the relationship they perceived between military service and masculinity, and how these were influenced by understandings of the First World War. Locating the cultural legacy of First World War in the subjectivities of men who participated in the Second World War demonstrates the breadth of sources that informed men?s understandings of the First World War in interwar Britain. Its cultural legacy was omnipresent and diverse, and informed young men?s attitudes and service preferences, but it reinforced Edwardian conceptions of wartime masculinity as often as it undermined them. Two decades after the First World War ended, they remained resilient in the subjective understandings of men who grew up in the Great War?s shadow.

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