Michael Roper

The secret battle

Emotional survival in the great war

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a study of domestic life during the war, of what people on the home front did to support men at the front, and of how soldiers in trenches organised the routines of feeding, rest, warmth, washing, that ensured their survival.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780719083860
• ISBN-10: 0719083869
• Artikelnr.: 30881181

Autorenporträt

Michael Roper is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction PART I: MOTHERS AND SONS 1. Keeping in touch 2.
Separation and support PART II: MOTHERING MEN 3. Staying alive 4. Learning
to care 5. Love and loss PART III: FALLING APART 6. Nameless dread 7. The
return of the soldier Epilogue Bibliography Index