This Companion brings together 32 new essays by leading historians to provide a reassessment of British history in the early twentieth century. The contributors

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First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it.

The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. The volume

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