Disgrace Abounding
E.S. Turner, 7 January 1988
A Class Society at War: England 1914-18
by Bernard Waites.
Berg, 303 pp., £25, November 1987,0 907582 65 6 Show More
by Bernard Waites.
Berg, 303 pp., £25, November 1987,
Working for Victory? Images of Women in the First World War
by Diana Condell and Jean Liddiard.
Routledge, 201 pp., £19.95, November 1987,0 7102 0974 6 Show More
by Diana Condell and Jean Liddiard.
Routledge, 201 pp., £19.95, November 1987,
The Countryside at War 1914-18
by Caroline Dakers.
Constable, 238 pp., £12.95, November 1987,0 09 468060 4 Show More
by Caroline Dakers.
Constable, 238 pp., £12.95, November 1987,
When Jim Crow met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War Two Britain
by Graham Smith.
Tauris, 265 pp., £14.95, November 1987,9781850430391 Show More
by Graham Smith.
Tauris, 265 pp., £14.95, November 1987,
“... How did the Great War – the first total war – affect the class structure of English society? An exhaustive answer, as Bernard Waites recognises, is probably beyond the power of any one historian. The difficulty is that class structure, or ‘social differentiation’, is something which, unlike crime or illegitimacy or whooping cough, defies both definition and statistical analysis ... ”
