Books By Martin Hurcombe, Philip Dine - Author

Martin Hurcombe is Professor of French Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He is a specialist in early twentieth-century French culture, history and politics and is the author of Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War (2004) and France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War Next Door, 1936-45 (2011). His most recent book, co-written with Martyn Cornick and Angela Kershaw, is French Political Travel Writing in the Inter-War Years: Radical Departures (2017). His current work explores the history of the French sports press and publication industry through its relationship to road cycling.

Philip Dine was formerly Personal Professor and Head of French at the University of Galway, Ireland. He has published widely on representations of the French colonial empire and its cultural legacies in fields ranging from children's literature to professional sport. Further projects