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Marginal Voices

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This presents the texts by those whose voices were excluded or marginalised in the process of publishing autobiographical accounts of the war: women, especially nurses; soldiers from the subject peoples of the Empires; and those who tried to avoid military service—‘shirkers’. It considers why they were marginalised.

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Palmer, J. (2018). Marginal Voices. In: Memories from the Frontline. Palgrave Studies in Life Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78051-1_3

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