New Directions in War and Culture Studies: A Collection of Essays by Early Career Researchers

This edited volume explores the new directions emerging in the field of war and culture through six essays that examine conflicts and their cultural legacy from the First World War to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for War & Culture Studies

Martin Hurcombe is Professor of French Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He is a specialist in early twentieth-century French culture, history, and politics and is the author of Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novelof the Great War (2004) and France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War Next Door, 1936-45 (2011). He is also co-author with Martyn Cornick and Angela Kershaw of French Political Travel Writing in the Inter-War Years: Radical Departures (2017). His current work explores the history of the French sports press and publication industry through its relationship to road cycling.