The Great War and the British People
Arthur Marwick explores two contrasting titles on the First World War.
- The Great War and the British People
J.M. Winter – Macmillan, 1985 - xiv + 360 pp. – £25 - The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War
L.F. Haber – Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986 - xiv + 415pp. - £35
It will clear the air from the start if I make two unambiguous points in respect of The Great War and The British People. The first is that Dr Winter has written what will surely come to be regarded as a true classic in the writing of twentieth-century British social history. The second is that until now the field has been held by my own The Deluge: British Society and The First World War, published twenty-one years ago.
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