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The Whole Armour of God - Anglican Army Chaplains in the Great War (Hardcover)
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The Whole Armour of God - Anglican Army Chaplains in the Great War (Hardcover)
Series: Helion Studies in Military History
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The Whole Armour of God examines and reassesses the role of the
Anglican army chaplains in the Great War. The tensions and
ambiguities of their role in the trenches resulted in criticism of
their achievements. As with other groups such as army generals, the
chaplains were given a bad press in the general disenchantment and
iconoclasm of the 1920s and 30s. Popular literary figures such as
Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon were particularly scathing and
spoke to a wide audience. This book seeks to readdress the balance
by using the words and actions of the chaplains themselves,
interwoven into the events of the war, to show that many strove
valiantly to bring the reality of God to the troops in the
maelstrom of war. They gave a great deal of thought to the often
conflicting demands of providing for the material and social needs
of their men and maintaining their more spiritual role. It explains
how they overturned orders and won the right to be with the troops
in the front line. It tries to judge the chaplains by the ideas and
standards of the time. In February 1919 the Army Chaplains
Department was awarded the accolade of being made the Royal Army
Chaplains Department in recognition of its work in the war. There
is compelling evidence that, subsequently, the Chaplains have been
judged too harshly. The Whole Armour of God argues that the
Anglican Chaplains should be given their rightful place in the
history of the Great War. About the Author Linda Parker combines
teaching History on a part time basis with her writing, and is
currently completing a PhD at Birmingham University. Her main areas
of interest are 20th Century Military History, Church History and
the History of Polar exploration. She is a member of the Western
Front Association. Her first book published by Helion was The Whole
Armour of God: Anglican Army Chaplains in the Great War (2009).
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