‘This is the most comprehensive reassessment of the ‘Home Front' in the United Kingdom that has been published for a generation. It will provide an indispensable starting point for future scholars of the war and helpful and enlightening reading to those who have a general interest in Britain and Ireland during this period.'
Adrian Gregory - author of The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War
‘In the fullest study in a generation, leading historians use social, economic, cultural, and political history to shine new light on Britain's home front in the Great War. They show why civilians were central to a ‘total war' and integrate Ireland as part of the United Kingdom of the period.'
John Horne - editor of A Companion to World War I
‘This collection makes a vital contribution to the political, economic and social history of the First World War. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars in their fields, it provides a comprehensive study of the British Home Front. It forms an essential addition to the historical literature of the war.'
Jessica Meyer - author of Men of War: Masculinity and the First World War in Britain
‘Hew Strachan's edited volume adds a strong scholarly voice to the chorus of commemoration still echoing from the centenary of the Great War. Here is a book which respects local identities and imperial loyalties, and shows how British initiatives in the management of manpower, production and finance underwrote victory in the 1914-18 war.'
Jay Winter - author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History
'a snapshot of cutting-edge historical research … impressive and important. It brings together over 30 scholars writing on a disparate array of topics, illustrated by contemporary photographs, cartoons and posters. Scholarly collections, particularly of conference proceedings, have a nasty habit of being bit of a ragbag, lacking a coherent theme, but this is emphatically not true of this book.’
Gary Sheffield
Source: The Western Front Association
