This book explores the publishing and reading practices formed and changed by the First World War. From an exploration of British and Australian trench journals to the impact of war on the literary figures of the home front, the essays provide new information about the production, circulation and reception of reading matter during this time.

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GRACE BROCKINGTON British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Clare Hall and the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK STEPHEN COLCLOUGH Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor, UK SANTANU DAS British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK KEITH GRIEVES Reader in History at Kingston University, UK SARA HASLAM Lecturer in Literature at the Open University, UK NICHOLAS HILEY Head of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature at the University of Kent, UK AMANDA LAUGESEN Lecturer in History and American Studies at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia KATE MACDONALD Research Associate at the Department of English Literature, University of Ghent, Belgium JESSICA MEYER Recently completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK JOHN PEGUM Recently completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK RAINER PÖPPINGHEGE CEO of the Historical Institute, Paderborn University, Germany JANE POTTER Senior Lecturer in Publishing, Oxford Brookes University, UK

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List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Hammond & S.Towheed PART 1: PROFIT AND PATRIOTISM For Country, Conscience and Commerce: Publishers and Publishing, 1914-1918; J.Potter 'No such bookselling has ever before taken place in this country': Propaganda and the Wartime Distribution Practices of W.H. Smith and Son; S.Colclough Translating Peace: Pacifist Publishing and the Transmission of Foreign Texts; G.Brockington PART 2: READING AND NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS Sepoys, Sahibs and Babus: India, the Great War and Two Colonial Journals; S.Das The Battle of the Books: Supplying Prisoners of War; R.Pöppinghege Australian Soldiers and the World of Print During the Great War; A.Laugesen PART 3: WRITING THE TRENCHES The Tuition of Manhood: 'Sapper's' War Stories and the Literature of War; J.Meyer British Army Trench Journals and a Geography of Identity; J.Pegum 'A New and Vital Moral Factor': Cartoon Book Publishing in Britain during the First World War; N.Hiley PART 4: ENLISTED AT HOME Translating Propaganda: John Buchan's Writing during the First World War; K.Macdonald Making a Text the Fordian Way: Between St Dennis and St George , Propaganda and the First World War; S.Haslam Depicting the War on the Western Front: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Publication of The British Campaign in France and Flanders ; K.Grieves Select Bibliography Index