Introduction
1: Outbreak of War, July to August
2: The National Cause
3: The Enemy
4: Encountering Violence: Imagined and Real
5: A Volunteer War
6: John Bull's Other Island
7: Settling into War
Conclusion
Bibliography
Catriona Pennell graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 2008 with a PhD in modern British and Irish history. During her research, she was awarded two major scholarships: the R.B. McDowell-Ussher Fellowship from Trinity College, Dublin (2003-2006), and the R.H.S. Centenary Fellowship from the Institute of Historical Research (2006-2007).
Drawing on a prodigious range of national, local, communal and
private sources, and casting her net widely throughout the whole
United Kingdom, Catriona Pennell has provided a marvellously
satisfying study of British (and Irish) popular responses to the
outbreak of the war.
*Keith Jeffery, Times Literary Supplement*
Historical myths are notoriously enduring, but that of a British
"collective war enthusiasm" at the outbreak of war in 1914 should
not survive after this excellent and important book, and should be
replaced by a view of a nation accepting the need for a war of
national defence.
*A. W. Purdue, Times Higher Education*
This is a superb book on a number of levels
*Dick Hunter, Due North*
combines meticulous scholarship, with narrative drive and subtle
analysis. If you buy only one book on war this year make sure it is
this one.
*Robin Prior*
there is much to commend A Kingdom United as an examination of
British and Irish responses towards the outbreak of war.
*Richard Batten, War in History*
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