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Book SynopsisThis book explores emotional responses to total war with a focus on the modern European experience. Examining particular wartime locations, and mapping national and transnational emotional cultures, the book suggests new ways of deploying emotion historically as an analytical device.
Trade ReviewWith its academic rigour and theoretical thoroughness, the book will certainly help scholars delve deeper into this important topic. * Birgit Schneider, War in History Book Reviews *
Table of ContentsForeword List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1: CLAIRE LANGHAMER, LUCY NOAKES AND CLAUDIA SIEBRECHT: Introduction 2: UTE FREVERT: Emotions in Times of War: Private and Public, Individual and Collective 3: SUSAN R. GRAYZEL: 'Macabre and Hilarious': The Emotional Life of the Civilian Gas Mask in France during and after the First World War 4: MICHAEL ROPER: Little Ruby's Hand: Young Women and the Emotional Experience of Caregiving in Britain after the First World War 5: CLAUDIA SIEBRECHT: The Tears of 1939: German Women and the Emotional Archive of the First World War 6: MARTIN FRANCIS: Wounded Pride and Petty Jealousies: Private Lives and Public Diplomacy in Second World War Cairo 7: LUCY NOAKES: Communities of Feeling: Fear, Death and Grief in the Writing of British Servicemen in the Second World War 8: CLAIRE LANGHAMER: 'Astray in a dark forest'? The Emotional Politics of Reconstruction Britain 9: JOY DAMOUSI: In Search of Victor: Transnationalism, Emotion and War Index
