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Wartime Diaries,motions and attitudes towards the war as letters home, from idealistic enthusiasm through disillusioned grousing at the dangers and discomforts of warfare to the angry satire of poets such as Siegfried Sassoon.

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Conclusion,th the home front and access to sources of bodily comfort. Postwar domestic identities were equally contingent on the specific social and cultural situation in which men found themselves, being informed by factors such as age, the availability of work and housing, a man’s health and that of his family.

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Introduction,es, because of their age, had not, and which separated those who had it from the rest of British society because of what they had seen, heard, smelt, tasted and, above all, felt in the course of four years of warfare.

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Remembering the Heroic Dead: Letters of Condolence,ulfilled a similar function, although the fact that such letters were written by civilian acquaintances of the dead as well as their military colleagues meant that the masculine identities constructed in such letters had the potential to encompass a wider range of qualities and signifiers.

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Introduction,ender. For Orwell, and other writers of his generation, the First World War was an important point of reference for the construction of their identity as men who had not fought. For them, the First World War was an arena in which the masculinity of those who had participated in it was defined, an ex

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,‘The Very Basic Test of Manhood’: War Memoirs and the Remembering of Martial Masculinities,r three rolling barrages, was an invalid,’. not all those who served in the war were disabled by it. Nor were correspondences with government ministries the only form of written narrative produced by ex-servicemen. Almost as soon as the Armistice was declared, politicians and generals rushed to prin