Home Fires Burning
Subtitle: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780807825266
Subjects: Central government policies; European history: First World War; Social history; Sociology, Social Studies; First World War, 1914-1918; History; Germany - History; World War I; World War, 1914-1918; History - Military / War; Women; History: World; Germany; Europe - Germany; Military - World War I; Berlin (Germany); Women's Studies - General; 20th century; Berlin
First sentence: Germany entered the war in 1914 a country in which rapid industrialization and urbanization had helped to produce a polarized society, often discontented and anomic, a nation that inspired both great pride and a gnawing sense of inadequacy among its subjects.