1st Edition

Landscapes of the Western Front Materiality During the Great War

By Ross Wilson Copyright 2012
258 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the warzone, analyzing how soldiers constructed a ‘sense of place’ in the hostile, unpredictable... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Representing the Western Front: Locating the Individual  3. The Western Front, 1914-1918  4. Behind the Lines  5. In the Trenches  6. The Materials of War  7. Conclusions  Bibliography  Index

Biography

Ross Wilson is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past in the Department of History, University of York, UK. He has research interests in the fields of heritage, landscapes, material culture and cultural representation. His doctoral research (York, 2008) focused on the battlefields of the Western Front (1914-1918) and the manner in which they have been portrayed and remembered through the memorial landscape, historiography, literature, film and archaeology.

‘A provocative demonstration of the ways British soldiers familiarized the unnatural and came to terms with the multiple Hells of the Western Front.’Dennis Showalter, Colorado College, USA