Remembering the South African War : Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the Present /
The experience of the South African War sharpened the desire to commemorate for a number of reasons. An increasingly literate public, a burgeoning populist press, an army reinforced by waves of volunteers and, to contemporaries at least, a shockingly high death toll embedded the war firmly in the na...
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Liverpool University Press,
2013.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Civic war memorials: public pride and private grief
- Pro patria mori: remembering the regiment
- Vitai lampada: remembering the war in schools
- Alternative affliliations: remembering the war in families, workplaces and places of worship
- Writing the Anglo-Boer War: Leo Amery, Frederick Maurice and the history of the South African War
- Filming the war: television, Kenneth Griffith and the Boer War.