Publishing in the First World War

[George Armstrong Custer]

Here's something a little offbeat and different which I've just come across. Published in 2007, the twelve essays in this book explore in depth for the first time the publishing and reading practices which were formed and changed by the First World War. Ranging from an exploration of British and Australian trench journals and the reading practices of Indian soldiers to the impact of war on the literary figures of the home front in Britain, these essays provide crucial new historical information about the production, circulation and reception of reading matter during a period of international crisis.

Here's the table of contents which give some idea of the themes explored:

List of Illustrations ix

List of Tables x

Acknowledgements xi

Notes on Contributors xii

Introduction by Mary Hammond, and Shafquat Towheed 1

Part I Profit and Patriotism 9

1 For Country, Conscience and Commerce: Publishers and Publishing, 1914-18 by Jane Potter 11

2 'No such bookselling has ever before taken place in this country': Propaganda and the Wartime Distribution Practices of W.H. Smith & Son by Stephen Colclough 27

3 Translating Peace: Pacifist Publishing and the Transmission of Foreign Texts by Grace Brockington 46

Part II Reading and National Consciousness 59

4 Sepoys, Sahibs and Babus: India, the Great War and Two Colonial Journals by Santanu Das 61

5 The Battle of the Books: Supplying Prisoners of War by Rainer Poppinghege 78

6 Australian Soldiers and the World of Print During the Great War by Amanda Laugesen 93

Part III Writing the Trenches 111

7 The Tuition of Manhood: 'Sapper's' War Stories and the Literature of War by Jessica Meyer 113

8 British Army Trench Journals and a Geography of Identity by John Pegum 129

9 'A New and Vital Moral Factor': Cartoon Book Publishing in Britain During the First World War by Nicholas Hiley 148

Part IV Enlisted at Home 179

10 Translating Propaganda: John Buchan's Writing During the First World War by Kate Macdonald 181

11 Making a Text the Fordian Way: Between St Dennis and St George, Propaganda and the First World War by Sara Haslam 202

12 Depicting the War on the Western Front: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Publication of The British Campaign in France and Flanders by Keith Grieves 215

Select Bibliography 233

Index 237

ISBN is: 9780230500761

ciao,

GAC

[John Gilinsky]

Thank you for posting this interesting and informative table of contents to this recently published book.

John

Toronto