Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Outbreak of War, July to August
2: The National Cause
3: The Enemy
4: Encountering Violence: Imagined and Real
5: A Volunteer War
6: John Bull's Other Island
7: Settling into War
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the Author

Catriona Pennell graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 2008 with a PhD in modern British and Irish history. During her research, she was awarded two major scholarships: the R.B. McDowell-Ussher Fellowship from Trinity College, Dublin (2003-2006), and the R.H.S. Centenary Fellowship from the Institute of Historical Research (2006-2007).

Reviews

Drawing on a prodigious range of national, local, communal and private sources, and casting her net widely throughout the whole United Kingdom, Catriona Pennell has provided a marvellously satisfying study of British (and Irish) popular responses to the outbreak of the war.
*Keith Jeffery, Times Literary Supplement*

Historical myths are notoriously enduring, but that of a British "collective war enthusiasm" at the outbreak of war in 1914 should not survive after this excellent and important book, and should be replaced by a view of a nation accepting the need for a war of national defence.
*A. W. Purdue, Times Higher Education*

This is a superb book on a number of levels
*Dick Hunter, Due North*

combines meticulous scholarship, with narrative drive and subtle analysis. If you buy only one book on war this year make sure it is this one.
*Robin Prior*

there is much to commend A Kingdom United as an examination of British and Irish responses towards the outbreak of war.
*Richard Batten, War in History*