The general outline for this project, when the call for papers first appeared in June 2013, requested contributions for essays on the entertainments and popular culture of the First World War, offering a lot of promise for the study of humour in an historical context, which has, it would seem, only recently become of interest to cultural historians.(1) As a self-proclaimed 'transnational' work, it called for international contributions that highlighted elements of the sometimes-unseen 'light-hearted discourses' of the war. As a result there are a number of new names writing about less than obvious topics, related to the entertainment industry, which has resulted in a refreshing take on the war overall. As an edited collection of essays, there can be questions of continuity between articles; nonetheless, the strength of the material has been maintained by the editors Clémentine Tholas-Disset and Karen A. Ritzenhoff. Contributions within the book come from scholars the world over, discussing entertainment cultures and how they were affected by the war. The variety of perspectives discussed is entertaining, which seems an inappropriate word to use in the context of an academic book, yet seems the most suitable given the subject matter.
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