Alex Mayhew

Making Sense of the Great War (eBook, ePUB)

Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009185738
• Artikelnr.: 70913733

Autorenporträt

Alex Mayhew is Assistant Professor in Modern European History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Part I. The Environment
1. Familiarising the Western Front: Attachment to Belgium and France
2. Enduring the Western Front: Winter and Morale
Part II. Social Groups
3. Defining Duty: Obligation and the Cultural Foundations of Morale
4. Imagining Home: Englishness in the Trenches
Part III. Crises and Morale
5. Hoping for Peace: Victory and the Future
6. Experiencing Crisis: Battle and Sensemaking, c. July 1917-June 1918
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.