Life, death and growing up on the western front. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anthony Fletcher.
• Authors: Fletcher, Anthony
• Contents: Going to war -- 'Quiet earnest faces': the national cause -- 'Glad to go': patriotic idealism -- 'Ready to go': training -- At the front -- 'Write as often as you can': letters and parcels -- 'Sticking it out': fear and shell shock -- 'A certain sense of safety with him': leadership -- 'Such a hopeless lot of babes': care for the men -- 'Drops of his blood on my hand': horror and endurance -- 'I merely did my duty': discipline and morale -- 'Very gallant in every way': early losses -- 'Blighty, oh blighty in about a week': leave -- 'I am serene, unafraid': the Somme -- 'Capable of finishing the job': battles of 1917-1918 -- 'The men cannot grasp it': armistice -- Sacrifice -- 'We will remember them': remembrance and commemoration -- 'All the best and choicest and unblemished': war heroes -- 'Among the happiest years I have every spent': survivors -- The Great War in perspective.
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 940.4/8141; World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Europe, Western; World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British; Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Correspondence; Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Aspect social -- Grande-Bretagne; Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Aspect social -- Europe de l'Ouest; HISTORY -- Europe -- Western; HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century; Armed Forces -- Military life; Social aspects; Soldiers; Western Europe; Great Britain; History; Personal narratives; Personal correspondence; History -- World War, 1914-1918; Military life -- History -- 20th century; Vie militaire -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300198560; 0300198566; 9780300205381; 0300205384
• Related ISBNs: 1299841309; 9781299841307; 9780300195538; 0300195532
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-318) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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