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Enduring the Great War

Name: Enduring the Great War
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 02048821
Price: 137.89 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Alexander Watson
ISBN: 9780521881012

Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918

Alexander Watson

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 02048821

Publishers Cambridge University Press, April 2008

This 2008 book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the h... Full description

Libristo code: 02048821

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This 2008 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.