The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War

by Leonard V. Smith

Book Overview

How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war. In order to do so, they used a variety of narrative tools at hand--rites of passage, mastery, a character of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801479568
• ISBN13: 9780801479564
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher