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Conscripts. Forgotten Men of the Great War

Categorie	WO I
Boeknummer	#197322
Titel	Conscripts. Forgotten Men of the Great War
Auteur	Bet-El, Ilana R.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	The History Press Ltd
Jaar van uitgave	2009
ISBN10	0752450441
ISBN13	9780752450445
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Drawing on diaries, letters and personal accounts from British conscripts who served on the Western Front in the latter half of the Great War, this is the first book to explore the contribution they made to the war effort. By the end of the war more than 2.5 million men had been conscripted, but their memory has not lived on; they are the lost legions of the First World War. Here, at last, their story is told: the story of ordinary men, from manual workers to clerks and solicitors, who became soldiers, fought and - for those who survived - went home. In this ground breaking work, Ilana Bet-El explains their absence from the imagery of the war. She reconstructs the daily life of soldiers on the Western Front as we are told, in the conscripts' own words, of the grim reality of dirt and lice ... (Lees verder)and hunger, the mysteries of army pay and military discipline, and the joys of leave and cigarettes. It is a compelling journey back in time, which restores these men to the public image of the Great War by rediscovering the 'forgotten memory' of Britain's conscript army.
Pagina's	264
Conditie	Nieuw
Prijs	€ 6,00

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