LEADER 03228nam 22005533a 450 001 996552365003316 005 20230629232316.0 010 $a1-5261-4613-4 010 $a1-5261-4615-0 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526146151 035 $a(CKB)5590000000434729 035 $a(OCoLC)1249174657 035 $a(ScCtBLL)8d9dbf57-7222-4934-8170-e7dd4ab7a78a 035 $a(DE-B1597)660105 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526146151 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000434729 100 $a20211214i20212021 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aBrothers in the Great War : $eSiblings, masculinity and emotions /$fLinda Maynard 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cManchester University Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aCultural History of Modern War 311 $a1-5261-4614-2 330 $aDrawing on a broad range of personal accounts, this is the first detailed study of siblinghood in wartime. The relative youth of the fighting men of the Great War intensified the emotional salience of sibling relationships. Long separations, trauma and bereavement tested sibling ties forged through shared childhoods, family practices, commitments and interests. We must not equate the absence of a verbal language of love with an absence of profound feelings. Quieter familial values of kindness, tolerance and unity, instilled by parents and reinforced by moral instruction, strengthened bonds between brothers and sisters. Examining the nexus of cultural and familial emotional norms, this study reveals the complex acts of mediation undertaken by siblings striving to reconcile conflicting obligations to society, the army and loved ones in families at home. Brothers enlisted and served together. Siblings witnessed departures and homecomings, shared family responsibilities, confided their anxieties and provided mutual support from a distance via letters and parcels. The strength soldier-brothers drew from each other came at an emotional cost to themselves and their comrades. The seismic casualties of the First World War proved a watershed moment in the culture of mourning and bereavement. Grief narratives reveal distinct patterns of mourning following the death of a loved sibling, suggesting a greater complexity to male grief than is often acknowledged. Surviving siblings acted as memory keepers, circumventing the anonymisation of the dead in public commemorations by restoring the particular war stories of their brothers. 606 $aFiction / Historical / World War I$2bisacsh 608 $aFiction$2lcgft 610 $aFirst World War. 610 $abrothers and sisters. 610 $aemotions. 610 $afamily relationships. 610 $agrief. 610 $amasculinities. 610 $amemory. 610 $asiblings. 610 $asoldiers. 610 $ayouth. 615 7$aFiction / Historical / World War I 676 $a306.87509041 700 $aMaynard$b Linda$01276264 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996552365003316 996 $aBrothers in the Great War$93007390 997 $aUNISA