Full of hope and fear. The Great War letters of an Oxford family / margaret Bonfiglioli ; James Munson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Corby : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (400 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780191016950
- 0191016950
- Slater, Gilbert, 1864-1938 -- Correspondence
- Slater, Gilbert, 1864-1938
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- England -- Oxfordshire
- War and families -- England -- Oxfordshire -- History -- 20th century
- Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Aspect social -- Angleterre -- Oxfordshire
- Guerre et familles -- Angleterre -- Oxfordshire -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Western
- Social aspects
- War and families
- England -- Oxfordshire
- World War (1914-1918)
- 1900-1999
- 940.5 22
- D652
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The First World War has survived as part of our national memory in a way no previous war has ever done. This collection of letters - which lay untouched for almost ninety years - allows a unique glimpse into the war as experienced by one family at the time, transporting us back to an era which is now slipping tantalizingly out of living memory. The Slaters - the family at the heart of these letters - lived in Oxford. In the letters they wrote to each other and their friends at this time we see how the war increasingly impacted upon each of their lives and the life of the world around them - rationing, Violet's increasing involvement in radical politics, the deaths of friends, the fear of Zeppelin raids when in London, the endless discussions between Violet and Gilbert about how to keep their son out of the trenches - and the growth of Owen from schoolboy to soldier, serving as a junior officer on the Western Front. Above all, in their privacy and immediacy, their inconsistencies and false hopes, these letters bring us as near as we can ever be to understanding what people thought, feared, and hoped for during these momentous years.
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