Joining Up in the Second World War

Joining Up examines how the cultural legacy of the First World War affected young men's attitudes to service and subjective conceptions of wartime masculinity during the Second World War.Morley uses original and archival oral histories and the Mass Observation Archive to explore how young men in interwar Britain encountered and understood representations of the Great War in popular culture and day-to-day life. Interactions with Great War veterans are shown to be more important than previously acknowledged. By demonstrating the breadth of representations through which the cultural memory of the Great War was transmitted and the diversity of young men's responses Joining Up makes a significant intervention in the cultural history of the Great War.>Joining Up makes important contributions to, and connects, the history of the legacy of the First World War, and the history of gender and service in the Second World War.