03184nam 2200637 450 991045275410332120200520144314.00-300-19856-610.12987/9780300198560(CKB)2550000001115079(EBL)3421273(SSID)ssj0000984656(PQKBManifestationID)12448991(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000984656(PQKBWorkID)11016223(PQKB)10187881(MiAaPQ)EBC3421273(DE-B1597)486120(OCoLC)857769597(DE-B1597)9780300198560(Au-PeEL)EBL3421273(CaPaEBR)ebr10756467(CaONFJC)MIL515381(EXLCZ)99255000000111507920130318h20132013 uy| 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrLife, death and growing up on the western front /Anthony FletcherNew Haven :Yale University Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (363 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-300-19553-2 1-299-84130-9 Front matter --Contents --List of Main Characters --Illustrations and Maps --Preface and Acknowledgements --Prologue --CHAPTER 1. 'Quiet Earnest Faces' The National Cause --CHAPTER 2. 'Glad to Go' Patriotic Idealism --CHAPTER 3. 'Ready to Go' Training --CHAPTER 4. 'Write as Often as You Can' Letters and Parcels --CHAPTER 5. 'Sticking it Out' Fear and Shell Shock --CHAPTER 6. 'A Certain Sense of Safety with Him' Leadership --CHAPTER 7. 'Such a Helpless Lot of Babes' Care for the Men --CHAPTER 8. 'Drops of his Blood on my Hand' Horror and Endurance --CHAPTER 9. 'I Merely Did my Duty' Discipline and Morale --CHAPTER 10. 'Very Gallant in Every Way' Early Losses --CHAPTER 11. 'Blighty, oh Blighty in about a Week' Leave --CHAPTER 12. 'I Am Serene, Unafraid' The Somme --CHAPTER 13. 'Capable of Finishing the Job' Battles of 1917-1918 --CHAPTER 14. 'The Men Cannot Grasp It' Armistice --CHAPTER 15. 'We Will Remember Them' Remembrance and Commemoration --CHAPTER 16. 'All the Best and Choicest and Unblemished' War Heroes --CHAPTER 17. 'Among the Happiest Years I Have Ever Spent' Survivors --Epilogue The Great War in Perspective --Notes --Bibliography --IndexWorld War, 1914-1918Social aspectsGreat BritainWorld War, 1914-1918Social aspectsEurope, WesternWorld War, 1914-1918Personal narratives, BritishSoldiersGreat BritainCorrespondenceElectronic books.World War, 1914-1918Social aspectsWorld War, 1914-1918Social aspectsWorld War, 1914-1918Soldiers940.4/8141Fletcher Anthony322238MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452754103321Life, death and growing up on the western front2448880UNINA