Cheer Up, Mate!: Second World War Humour - Softcover

Weeks, Alan

 
9780752459721: Cheer Up, Mate!: Second World War Humour
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0752459724 ISBN 13: 9780752459721
Verlag: The History Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Between 1939 and 1945 the world witnessed what is generally agreed to be the most horrific war in history. Millions died and millions more were physical or psychologically wounded by the conflict. Yet amidst the pain and devastation, people were not only able to survive, but also managed to maintain a sense of humor. For some, it was precisely this ability to laugh at their misfortunes (and those of the other side) that enabled them to solider on. This was especially true of the British, a nation whose reaction to more or less anything up to and including someone’s house being bombed to rubble tended to be, "never mind, have a cup of tea." This "Blitz Spirit" is perhaps best summed up by Mona Lott, one of the characters in Tommy Handley’s radio show It’s That Man Again (the show’s title itself being a comical reference to Hitler): "it’s being so cheerful as keeps me going."

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Alan Weeks was formerly Senior Lecturer in History at St Mary's College, University of London. He has written a number of school textbooks, including histories of the First and Second World Wars, and is the author of Tea, Rum & Fags: Sustaining Tommy, 1914–18 and A Bloody Picnic: Tommy’s Humour, 1914–18.

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Verlag
The History Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0752459724
ISBN 13 
9780752459721
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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