Part of History: Aspects of the British Experience of the First World War

In this volume, a reprint from 2008, Howard, who served with the British Army in Italy during World War II and taught military and naval history at Yale U., assembles a collection of 22 essays about different aspects of the British experience of the First World War. Contributors working in war studies, conflict studies, history, English, poetry, music, and archeology in the UK and US discuss a variety of topics: military revisionism; the press, propaganda, and public perceptions of the war; the Gallipoli campaign; changes in British writing about the Battle of Jutland; the Battle of the Somme; the contributions of India; the role of religion; wartime film propaganda; women's writing about the Armistice; the Imperial War Museum; war poetry, memoirs, and fiction; oral history; memo rials; Britten's War Requiem; popular culture; and archeological expeditions. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Sir Michael Howard served with the British Army in Italy during the Second World War and was awarded a Military Cross. Thereafter he established the Department of War Studies at King's College London, which he left to become first Chilchele Professor of the History of War, and then Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, ending his professional career as Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale. He has been awarded The Order of Merit and is a Companion of Honour. In addition to his own History of the First World War, his works include The Franco-Prussian War, War in European History, and most recently Liberation or Catastrophe.