Making Sense of the Great War : Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front Hardback
by Alex (London School of Economics and Political Science) Mayhew
Part of the Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare series
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The First World War was an unprecedented crisis, with communities and societies enduring the unimaginable hardships of a prolonged con?ict on an industrial scale.
In Belgium and France, the terrible capacity of modern weaponry destroyed the natural world and exposed previously held truths about military morale and tactics as falsehoods.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered some of the worst conditions that combatants have ever faced.
How did they survive? What did it mean to them? How did they perceive these events? Whilst the trenches of the Western Front have come to symbolise the futility and hopelessness of the Great War, Alex Mayhew shows that English infantrymen rarely interpreted their experiences in this way.
They sought to survive, navigated the crises that confronted them, and crafted meaningful narratives about their service.
Making Sense of the Great War reveals the mechanisms that allowed them to do so.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:390 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/04/2024
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- ISBN:9781009168755
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:390 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/04/2024
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- ISBN:9781009168755
