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The Embattled Self : French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War /

How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The embattled self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Smith, Leonard V., 1957- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Rites of passage and the initiation to combat
  • The mastery of survival : death, mutilation, and killing
  • The genre of consent
  • The novel and the search for closure.