Soldiers and Their Horses: Sense, Sentimentality and the Soldier-Horse Relationship in The Great War

by Jane Flynn

Book Overview

The soldier-horse relationship was nurtured by The British Army because it made the soldier and his horse into an effective fighting unit. Soldiers and their Horses explores a complex relationship forged between horses and humans in extreme conditions. As both a social history of Britain in the early twentieth century and a history of the British Army, Soldiers and their Horses reconciles the hard pragmatism of war with the imaginative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032175494
• ISBN13: 9781032175492
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"