Behind the Front

Behind the Front
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 481
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781107782631
ISBN-13 : 1107782635
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Behind the Front by : Craig Gibson

Download or read book Behind the Front written by Craig Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now scholars have looked for the source of the indomitable Tommy morale on the Western Front in innate British bloody-mindedness and irony, not to mention material concerns such as leave, food, rum, brothels, regimental pride, and male bonding. However, re-examining previously used sources alongside never-before consulted archives, Craig Gibson shifts the focus away from battle and the trenches to times behind the front, where the British intermingled with a vast population of allied civilians, whom Lord Kitchener had instructed the troops to 'avoid'. Besides providing a comprehensive examination of soldiers' encounters with local French and Belgian inhabitants which were not only unavoidable but also challenging, symbiotic and uplifting in equal measure, Gibson contends that such relationships were crucial to how the war was fought on the Western Front and, ultimately, to British victory in 1918. What emerges is a novel interpretation of the British and Dominion soldier at war.


Behind the Front Related Books

Behind the Front
Language: en
Pages: 481
Authors: Craig Gibson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Until now scholars have looked for the source of the indomitable Tommy morale on the Western Front in innate British bloody-mindedness and irony, not to mention
Behind the Front Page
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: David S Broder
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-03 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From Simon & Schuster, Behind the Front Page is David S. Broder's candid look at how the news is made. The author, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David S. Brod
Just Behind the Front in France
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Noble Foster Hoggson
Categories: World War, 1914-1918
Type: BOOK - Published: 1918 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War
Language: en
Pages: 470
Authors: Vladimir N. Brovkin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Countering the powerful myth that the civil war in Russia was largely between the "Whites" and the "Reds," Vladimir Brovkin views the struggle as a multifaceted
Behind the Forgotten Front
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Barbara Hawkins
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-02 - Publisher: Bublish, Inc.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

75 years after WWII headlines of Pearl Harbor, Normandy and Hiroshima hit the press, the China-Burma-India Theater is brought to light in Behind the Forgotten F