Focussing on the upsurge of interest in the Second World War in contemporary British novels, this monograph considers established writers, including Muriel Spar

Shows how central the Second World War still is to post-war writing. Focusing on the upsurge of interest in the Second World War in recent British novels, this

British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime excavates British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past

An overview of writing about the war from a global perspective, aimed at students of modern literature.

Few countries attribute as much importance to the Second World War and its memory as Britain; arguably nowhere else has this conflict developed such longevity i