Helen B. McCartney

Citizen Soldiers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A compelling 2003 assessment of the experience of the British soldier in the First World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780521848008
• ISBN-10: 0521848008
• Artikelnr.: 21859265

Autorenporträt

Helen McCartney is a Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, King''s College London based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Pre-war Liverpool and the Territorial Force; Part I.
Territorial Characteristics and the Morale of the Soldier: 3. 'Cuff and
Collar Battalions:' social change and its impact on the unit; 4. 'Common
ties at home and strong county pride': the persistence and importance of
county uniformity; 5. The links with home: communication between the home
front and the fighting front; Part II. Command, Discipline and the Citizen
Soldier: 6. Command and consent in the trenches; 7. Discipline, punishment
and the territorial ethos; Part III. Attitudes and Experience: The War and
its Aftermath: 8. The experience of active service on the Western Front; 9.
The aftermath of war.