This illuminating study provides a unifying framework for
understanding the daily lives of British soldiers past and
present.How different were the men who fought at Blenheim and at
Goose Green? Is there a human thread that connects the redcoat of
300 years ago with the British soldier today? What would they find
in common if they found a shared foe?This book focuses on the
people who make up the British Army and the very human interactions
between them in their daily lives. It marries the academic
disciplines of Social Anthropology and Military History to provide
a novel way of looking at the anatomy of the army at unit level
from an entirely human perspective. Concentrating on the attitudes,
expectations and concerns expressed by the people involved, it sets
out a social model of life at regimental duty that can be used to
describe, analyze and explain their behaviours over the past 300
years.The book is grounded in what soldiers of all ranks have said,
using the author's research interview material for the modern
witnesses and memoirs, diaries and letters for earlier ones. These
first-hand statements are analyzed using techniques from Social
Anthropology and the emerging patterns are captured in the
model."Birmingham War Studies" ("BWS") is a series of works of
original historical research in the area of History and War
Studies. The works will cover all aspects of war studies from the
Ancient Greeks and Romans to the present day.
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