The secret battle: Emotional survival in the great war (Cultural History of Modern War) - Softcover

Roper, Michael

 
9780719083860: The secret battle: Emotional survival in the great war (Cultural History of Modern War)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719083869 ISBN 13: 9780719083860
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2010

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This is a study of domestic life during the war, of what people on the home front did to support men at the front, and of how soldiers in trenches organised the routines of feeding, rest, warmth, washing, that ensured their survival.

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Michael Roper is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex

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What did home mean to British soldiers and how did it help them to cope with the psychological strains of the Great War? Family relationships lie at the heart of this book. It explores the contribution letters and parcels from home played in maintaining the morale of this largely young, amateur army. And it shows how soldiers, in their turn, sought to adapt domestic habits to the trenches. Pursuing the unconscious clues within a rich collection of letters and memoirs with the help of psychoanalytical ideas, including those formulated by the veteran tank commander Wilfred Bion, this study asks fundamental questions about the psychological resources of this generation of young men. It reveals how the extremities of battle exposed the deepest emotional ties of childhood, and went on marking the post-war domestic lives of those who returned.

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What did home mean to British soldiers and how did it help them to cope with the psychological strains of the Great War? Family relationships lie at the heart of this book. It explores the contribution letters and parcels from home played in maintaining the morale of this largely young, amateur army. And it shows how soldiers, in their turn, sought to adapt domestic habits to the trenches. Pursuing the unconscious clues within a rich collection of letters and memoirs with the help of psychoanalytical ideas, including those formulated by the veteran tank commander Wilfred Bion, this study asks fundamental questions about the psychological resources of this generation of young men. It reveals how the extremities of battle exposed the deepest emotional ties of childhood, and went on marking the post-war domestic lives of those who returned.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719083869
ISBN 13 
9780719083860
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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