Susan R. Grayzel (Utah State University)

Gebundenes Buch

The Age of the Gas Mask

How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War

Beschreibung

This vivid and accessible history of the civilian gas mask from the years 1915-1945 reveals the shocking consequences of modern, total war and how ordinary civilians learned to face its terrors. It demonstrates the profound impact of new technologies of warfare on imperial Britain's culture, politics, and society.

Autor

Susan R. Grayzel is Professor of History at Utah State University. Her previous publications include Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (1999), At Home and under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz (2012), and the co-edited volume Gender and the Great War (2017).

Produktdetails

• Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 153mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781108491273
• ISBN-10: 1108491278
• Artikelnr.: 63397077