Keeping the Home Fires Burning Music and a broken heart

and a broken heart

Mesopotamia and the defense of the Suez Canal

granting women the right to vote

widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time—featuring an Introduction by historian Norman Stone

Relying extensively on letters

Keeping the Home Fires Burning Music and a broken heartDescription by Phil Carradice Hardcover Keeping the Home Fires Burning tells the story of how the troops and the general public were kept happy and content during the First World War. Between 1914 and 1918 there was entertainment of the masses for the sole purpose of promotion of the war effort. It was the first time that a concerted effort to raise and sustain morale was ever made by any British government and was a combination of government