Post - War books

[M_J_Robinson_Dur]

Hey everyone,

Come September I'm going to be undertaking a research year discussing the experiences of demobilised Irish soldiers in post - war Ireland. Before doing so, I was hoping to get a sense of how veterans from other countries across the globe were treated by society following their service in the Great War. So far I have read:

The Bonus Army: An American Epic

The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939

The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War

The Lion and the Poppy: British Veterans, Politics, and Society, 1921-1939

I am particularly looking for maybe a French example to study but any other relevant studies you believe could be helpful would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks all,

Michael

[peterhogg]

Here are two books which focus on aspects of the cultural and social impact of the Great War, as their subtitles suggest:

Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning and the First World War by Jonathan F. Vance

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History by Jay Winter

peter

[CarylW]

Hey everyone,

Come September I'm going to be undertaking a research year discussing the experiences of demobilised Irish soldiers in post - war Ireland. Before doing so, I was hoping to get a sense of how veterans from other countries across the globe were treated by society following their service in the Great War. So far I have read:

................I am particularly looking for maybe a French example to study but any other relevant studies you believe could be helpful would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Michael

Printed books I've found useful.

(You also asked for a French example). The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War Jean-Yves Le Naour (An account of the post war experiences of a French soldier returned from a prisoner of war camp unable to remember who he was and the various families who came forward to claim him as a relation)

Britain between the Wars:1918-40 Charles Loch Mowat

Online books at archive.org

http://www.archive.o...mforr00toddrich

The French system for return to civilian life of crippled and discharged soldiers ([1918])

http://www.archive.o...cultu00grearich

British agriculture the nation's opportunity; being the Minority report of the departmental Committee on the employment

of sailors and soldiers on the land (1917)

http://www.archive.o...ineng00faririch

The development in England of a state system for the care of the disabled soldier ([1918])

http://www.archive.o...nreed00mcmurich

Experience in the re-education of disabled soldiers in Great Britain (1919?])

Some of the books concerning British Great War veterans above were published in America but quote from British sources and studies

Although as per some of the titles they are concerned with disabled soldiers and rehabilitation but they do contain other aspects of the life and experiences of returning soldiers

You asked for examples across the globe. archive.org does have books online about post war Canadian and American soldiers, rehabilitation of disabled, pensions, employment etc

Also if you type in 'after the war' into the search at archive.org this brings up quite a few titles about life after the war in various countries, Germany, America, Great Britain, Hungary, Russia

You'll probably have a lot of other (better) replies

Caryl