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Understanding the Literature of World War I
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With primary documents and critical analysis, situates war fiction and poetry within the historical contexts of WWI and relates it to issues of diplomacy, combat, propaganda, women's perspectives, and the aftermath of war.

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Acknowledgments Introduction World War I Chronology War at the Front: An Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front Women and the Home Front War Poetry The Stretegic Technology of Modern Warfare: Propoganda and Civilian Bombing Aftermath: An Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Virgina Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and Paul West's Love Mansion

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JAMES H. MEREDITH is a former Lieutenant Colonel and professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. He has served on several Literary Society boards, and is frequently writes on such literary figures as Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Stephen Crane, Joseph Heller. He also writes on such historic figures and topics as Theodore Roosevelt, the American Civil War, and World War II. He is the author of Understanding the Literature of World War II (Greenwood, 1999).

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?Understanding the Literature of World War I joins others in the 'Literature in Context' series to present high school to college level students with a 'casebook' to issues, sources and historical documents. Students may use this to understand both World War II history and the fiction works which resulted in such classics as All Quiet On the Western Front, making it of dual importance to both American history and literature classes.?-Internet Bookwatch

"Understanding the Literature of World War I joins others in the 'Literature in Context' series to present high school to college level students with a 'casebook' to issues, sources and historical documents. Students may use this to understand both World War II history and the fiction works which resulted in such classics as All Quiet On the Western Front, making it of dual importance to both American history and literature classes."-Internet Bookwatch

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