The Great Cat and Dog Massacre
The Great Cat and Dog Massacre is a history book by Hilda Kean. It recounts the story of the British pet massacre during September 1939, at the onset of World War II, when hundreds of thousands of British family pets were preemptively euthanised in anticipation of air raids and resource shortages.[1]
Kean also uses the episode to discuss people's feelings about their pets and the psychology of a population at war.[2]
The book was published in 2017 by University of Chicago Press.[3] Its title is a reference to Robert Darnton's 1984 work The Great Cat Massacre.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "The Pets’ War: On Hilda Kean’s “The Great Cat and Dog Massacre”". LA Review of Books, April 30, 2017 By Colin Dickey
- ^ "Briefly Noted Book Reviews". The New Yorker. 1 May 2017. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ^ "Keep Calm and Kiss the Cat Goodbye". New York Times, Elena Passarello, April 21, 2017
- ^ Pemberton, Neil (April 2018). "Hilda Kean . The Great Cat and Dog Massacre: The Real Story of World War II's Unknown Tragedy. Animal Lives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 248. $35.00 (cloth)". Journal of British Studies. 57 (2): 434–435. doi:10.1017/jbr.2018.44. ISSN 0021-9371.
External links
[edit]- Kean, Hilda (2017). The Great Cat and Dog Massacre: The Real Story of World War Two's Unknown Tragedy (Animal Lives). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226318325.
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