A groundbreaking new history of the British home front during the First World War.

Introduction: the war that did not end all wars; 1. Going to war; 2. Defining the enemy: atrocities and propaganda; 3. From spectatorship to participation; volunteering to compulsion; 4. Economies of sacrifice; 5. Redemption through war: religion and the languages of sacrifice; 6. The conditional sacrifices of labour; 7. The Last War: 1917-?; Conclusion.

Adrian Gregory is Lecturer in Modern History at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. His previous publications include The Silence of Memory: Armistice Day 1919-1946 (1994) and, as editor, A War to Unite Us All: Ireland and the Great War (2002).