Playing Soldier: The Books and Toys That Prepared Children for War, 1871–1918 Native American History Bacon's The Great Halifax Explosion:

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notions that the war that broke out in 1914 was strictly a European concern

with a high standing amongst ex-service men and as a bestselling author

the British avenged their defeat when Baghdad was captured in March 1917

Playing Soldier: The Books and Toys That Prepared Children for War, 1871–1918 Native American History Bacon's The Great Halifax Explosion:Description by Richard Cheek Hardcover The ways books, magazines, printed ephemera, and toys relating to military life and wartime experience were used to persuade boys to admire, and aspire to become, soldiers and sailors are illuminated in this lively catalogue, which accompanied a Grolier Club exhibition. Covering the period 18711918, Richard Cheek shows that young people were encouraged to accept war as an inevitable form of human behavior that