The unquiet western front : Britains role in literature and history Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 The necessary war 1914 1918; 2 Goodbye to all that 1919 1933; 3 Donkeys and Flanders mud the war rediscovered in the 1960s; 4 Thinking the unthinkable the First World War as history; Sir Lees Knowles (1857 1928); The Lees Knowles lectures; Notes; Select bibliography; Index Britains role in the First World War has been portrayed mainly through literature films and plays in most cases with a marked un historical anti war spirit. This book follows the controversy from 1918 to the present and concludes that historians are finally permitting the War to be placed in proper perspective