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The Stomach for Fighting - Food and the Soldiers of the Great War (Paperback)
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The Stomach for Fighting - Food and the Soldiers of the Great War (Paperback)
Series: Cultural History of Modern War
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Food is critical to military performance, but it is also central to
social interaction and fundamental to our sense of identity. The
soldiers of the Great War did not shed their eating preferences
with their civilian clothes, and the army rations, heavily reliant
on bully beef and hardtack biscuit, were frequently found wanting.
Nutritional science of the day had only a limited understanding of
the role of vitamins and minerals, and the men were often presented
with a diet that, shortages and logistics permitting, was high in
calories but low in flavour and variety. Just as now, soldiers on
active service were linked with home through the lovingly packed
food parcels they received; a taste of home in the trenches. This
book uses the personal accounts of the men themselves to explore a
subject that was central not only to their physical health, but
also to their emotional survival. -- .
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