The British working class and enthusiasm for war, 1914-1916.

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Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The rush to colours, business as usual, and the coming of conscription -- August 1914 to May 1916 -- chapter 3 Currents within the ood -- Who were the volunteers? -- chapter 4 A sense of the round world -- The workers, Britain, Europe, and the empire -- chapter 5 The monotony of the trivial round -- Enlistment and the escape from domesticity -- chapter 7 We were being patriotic. Or young and silly -- Enlistment and allegiance -- chapter 8 Conclusion.

Millions of men volunteered to leave home, hearth and family to go to a foreign land to fight in 1914, the start of the biggest war in British history. It was a war fought by soldier-citizens, millions strong, most of whom had volunteered willingly to go. They made up the army that first held, and then, in 1918, thrust back the German Army to win the Great War.The British 'Tommy' has been lionized in the decades since the war, but little attention has been made in the literature to what motivated the ordinary British man to go to France, especially in the early years when Britain relie.

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