The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939

by Deborah Cohen

Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In The War Come Home, Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent nations--Germany and Britain--cared for their disabled. At the heart of this book is an apparent paradox. Although postwar Germany provided its disabled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520220080
• ISBN13: 9780520220089
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"