Description: Further DetailsTitle: Enduring the Great WarCondition: NewSubtitle: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914–1918EAN: 9780521123082ISBN: 9780521123082Publisher: Cambridge University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/12/2009Description: This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay natural human resilience. Drawing widely on contemporary letters and diaries of British and German soldiers, psychiatric reports and official documentation, and interpreting these sources with modern psychological research, this unique account provides fresh insights into the soldiers' fears, motivations and coping mechanisms. It explains why the British outlasted their opponents by examining and comparing the motives for fighting, the effectiveness with which armies and societies supported men and the combatants' morale throughout the conflict on both sides. Finally it challenges the consensus on the war's end, arguing that not a 'covert strike' but rather an 'ordered surrender' led by junior officers brought about Germany's defeat in 1918.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 450gAuthor: Alexander WatsonGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: History, Military HistoryBook Series: Cambridge Military HistoriesRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Enduring the Great War
Title: Enduring the Great War
Subtitle: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 191
EAN: 9780521123082
ISBN: 9780521123082
Release Date: 11/12/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Military History
Number of Pages: 308 Pages
Publication Name: Enduring the Great War : Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Military / World War I, Europe / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Subject Area: History
Author: Alexander Watson
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Cambridge Military Histories Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
