Le_Treport Posted 22 November , 2005 Share Posted 22 November , 2005 I'm interested in reading more about the aftermath of the war. Not only how the military units were run-down, men de-mobbed etc, but also how did life on the Western Front resume? When did the inhabitants return? How did the battlefields get cleared? When did farming restart? How were land/property disputes solved? How did people finance rebuilding their lives? etc....etc.. Can anyone recommend any books on this topic please? Thanks in advance...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodB Posted 23 November , 2005 Share Posted 23 November , 2005 This is a topic that has interested me too.. I suspect most writing on such topics would have been in French, as that was the language of all the locals involved.. seems that once the other nations left they forgot about it. There is an aricle on Reconstruction here :- Reconstruction and World War I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halder Posted 23 November , 2005 Share Posted 23 November , 2005 I'm interested in reading more about the aftermath of the war. Not only how the military units were run-down, men de-mobbed etc, but also how did life on the Western Front resume? When did the inhabitants return? How did the battlefields get cleared? When did farming restart? How were land/property disputes solved? How did people finance rebuilding their lives? etc....etc.. Can anyone recommend any books on this topic please? Thanks in advance...... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> For a look at Germany, Germany After the First World War by Richard Bessel Vanguard of Nazism by Robert Waite A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazi Party by Nigel Jones and also Remarque's The Road Back, which although fiction is a very good insight into the mind of the returning soldiers (a counterbalance is von Salomon's The Outlaws) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swizz Posted 25 November , 2005 Share Posted 25 November , 2005 You could try this if you can get hold of a copy: http://www.exeterpress.co.uk/histcon.htm#After%20the%20Ruins I haven't read it but I have read a few associated academic articles and they were very interesting - about how, for example, British communities gave money to French villages to help them rebuild. I'd post the references for those too except that I have no idea what I've done with them! Swizz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swizz Posted 25 November , 2005 Share Posted 25 November , 2005 There are a few amongst the articles listed here: http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~hclout/publications.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Nulty Posted 25 November , 2005 Share Posted 25 November , 2005 Alisdair I asked this question myself a few months back and one really useful reply pointed me towards a book "The Challenge of The Dead" by Stephen Graham. The screen shot below is of the preface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le_Treport Posted 1 December , 2005 Author Share Posted 1 December , 2005 These look like 'the very dab' - Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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