The Other Wars: The Experience and Memory of the First World War in the Middle East and Macedonia (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)

In this insightful and revealing study, Justin Fantauzzo uses a wide range of documentary and visual sources to explore the experience and memory of British and Dominion soldiers who fought in the Middle East and Macedonia during the First World War. He shows that not only was the experience of these campaigns markedly different to their counter-parts on the Western Front, but so too were the memories and portrayals of these campaigns in the inter-war period. Fantauzzo's analysis highlights the disparities and contradictions that exist in the experience and memory of war and helps us to rethink what the war meant to the soldiers who fought in this region, how soldiers understood the war itself and how it was remembered. "To be sure, all soldiers, on all fronts, in all armies, suffered hardships during the First World War. British and Dominion soldiers on the Western Front were faced with their own set of harsh environmental and combat conditions. Water-logged, muddy trenches in Flanders, most notably at Ypres, became one of the war's defining features. Mud was symbolic of the war's futility. Winters on the Western Front were bitterly cold. The winter of 1916-17 was especially bad"-- Provided by publisher Cover Half-title page Series page Title page Copyright page Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Experience 1 Soldiering 2 Touring 3 Meaning 4 Forgotten Part II Memory 5 Public Memory 6 Private Memory Conclusion Bibliography Index The first full-length, comparative study of the experience and memory of British and Dominion soldiers who fought in the First World War's 'sideshows' in Sinai and Palestine, Macedonia, and Mesopotamia.