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Behind the Front - British Soldiers and French Civilians, 1914-1918 (Paperback)
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Behind the Front - British Soldiers and French Civilians, 1914-1918 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
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Until now scholars have looked for the source of the indomitable
Tommy morale on the Western Front in innate British
bloody-mindedness and irony, not to mention material concerns such
as leave, food, rum, brothels, regimental pride, and male bonding.
However, re-examining previously used sources alongside
never-before consulted archives, Craig Gibson shifts the focus away
from battle and the trenches to times behind the front, where the
British intermingled with a vast population of allied civilians,
whom Lord Kitchener had instructed the troops to 'avoid'. Besides
providing a comprehensive examination of soldiers' encounters with
local French and Belgian inhabitants which were not only
unavoidable but also challenging, symbiotic and uplifting in equal
measure, Gibson contends that such relationships were crucial to
how the war was fought on the Western Front and, ultimately, to
British victory in 1918. What emerges is a novel interpretation of
the British and Dominion soldier at war.
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