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Enduring the Great War - Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918 (Hardcover)
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Enduring the Great War - Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Military Histories
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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
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.
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