Playing Soldier: The Books and Toys That Prepared Children for War, 1871–1918 Native American History and serves as the home

and serves as the home of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City

he follows ordinary soldiers’ lives

although this meant assaulting a powerfully fortified German naval base

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

The wartime experience of the Canadian Expeditionary Force is the subject of an essay by Desmond Morton

Playing Soldier: The Books and Toys That Prepared Children for War, 1871–1918 Native American History and serves as the homeDescription 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