Keeping the Home Fires Burning: Entertaining the Troops at Home and Abroad During the Great War

"A brilliant account of the entertainment industry that was specifically geared up . . . for the purposes of keeping the public and the military entertained." —Books Monthly

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 susta...