Life, death and growing up on the western front / / Anthony Fletcher

• Autore: Fletcher Anthony
• Pubblicazione: New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.4/8141
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1914-1918 - Social aspects - Great Britain; World War, 1914-1918 - Social aspects - Europe, Western; World War, 1914-1918; Soldiers - Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Titolo autorizzato: Life, death and growing up on the western front
• ISBN: 0-300-19856-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452754103321
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