Behind the Front

Name: Behind the Front
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521837613
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British Soldiers and French Civilians, 1914-1918

Autor: Craig Gibson

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Cambridge University Press

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Until now scholars have looked for the source of the indomitable Tommy morale on the Western Front i...

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Autor

Craig Gibson

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2014

Stránek

480

EAN

9780521837613

ISBN

0521837618

Enbook ID

02046209

Vydavatel

Cambridge University Press

Hmotnost

Rozměry

152 x 234 x 30

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Until now scholars have looked for the source of the indomitable Tommy morale on the Western Front in innate British bloody-mindedness and irony, not to mention material concerns such as leave, food, rum, brothels, regimental pride, and male bonding. However, re-examining previously used sources alongside never-before consulted archives, Craig Gibson shifts the focus away from battle and the trenches to times behind the front, where the British intermingled with a vast population of allied civilians, whom Lord Kitchener had instructed the troops to 'avoid'. Besides providing a comprehensive examination of soldiers' encounters with local French and Belgian inhabitants which were not only unavoidable but also challenging, symbiotic and uplifting in equal measure, Gibson contends that such relationships were crucial to how the war was fought on the Western Front and, ultimately, to British victory in 1918. What emerges is a novel interpretation of the British and Dominion soldier at war.

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