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Joining Up in the Second World War

Enlistment, Masculinity and the Memory of the Great War

Joel Morley

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English
Manchester University Press
29 July 2025
This book connects the First and Second World Wars.

It uses oral histories and Mass Observation material to explore men's attitudes to Second World War enlistment and the relationship they perceived between military service and masculinity, and how these were influenced by understandings of the First World War. Locating the cultural legacy of First World War in the subjectivities of men who participated in the Second World War demonstrates the breadth of sources that informed men's understandings of the First World War in interwar Britain. Its cultural legacy was omnipresent and diverse, and informed young men's attitudes and service preferences, but it reinforced Edwardian conceptions of wartime masculinity as often as it undermined them. Two decades after the First World War ended, they remained resilient in the subjective understandings of men who grew up in the Great War's shadow.
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Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 138mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   512g
ISBN:   9781526157232
ISBN 10:   1526157233
Series:   Cultural History of Modern War
Pages:   312
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Joel Morley is an oral historian specialising in the cultural and social history of war and gender in twentieth-century Britain.

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