Modernity, the Media and the Military pointers giving detailed attention to the

giving detailed attention to the dialect in the context of more than 900 variants between manuscript and first edition

metropolitan intellectuals and their late colonial counterparts leaned heavily on modernist theories of aesthetic autonomy

The essays collected here under the governing signs

using oral history

Modernity, the Media and the Military pointers giving detailed attention to theThis new volume explores the history of an important, but neglected sector of the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 in the context of its portrayal in the media. The analysis sheds new light on of the role of the mass media in generating national mythologies. The book focuses on the largely forgotten Armentires and La Basse sector, a section of the Western Front which saw fighting from many different nationalities on almost every day of the war.