Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918

by Alexander Watson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521123089
• ISBN13: 9780521123082
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"