A groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation This study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Sec

Examines debates central to postwar British culture, showing the pressures of reconstruction and the mutual implication of war and peace.

How did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction? During the Second World War and in its afterma

In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection exam

The two-volume World War II and the Postwar Years in America: A Historical and Cultural Encyclopedia contains over 175 articles describing everyday life on the