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Motivation in War - The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe (Paperback)
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Motivation in War - The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe (Paperback)
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This book fundamentally revises our notion of why soldiers of the
eighteenth century enlisted, served and fought. In contrast to
traditional views of the brutal conditions supposedly prevailing in
old-regime armies, Ilya Berkovich reveals that soldiers did not
regard military discipline as illegitimate or unnecessarily cruel,
nor did they perceive themselves as submissive military automatons.
Instead he shows how these men embraced a unique corporate identity
based on military professionalism, forceful masculinity and
hostility toward civilians. These values fostered the notion of
individual and collective soldierly honour which helped to create
the bonding effect which contributed toward greater combat
cohesion. Utilising research on military psychology and combat
theory, and employing the letters, diaries and memoirs of around
250 private soldiers and non-commissioned officers from over a
dozen different European armies, Motivation in War transforms our
understanding of life of the common soldier in early modern Europe.
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