Following the French Revolution, radical military reforms created conditions for new physical and emotional intimacy between soldiers, estabilishing a model of fraternal affection that would persist from the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars through the Franco-Prussian War and W…
The first book-length study of the origin of queer soldiers in modern France.
This book re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period 1874-1902. It uses using a range of sources, such as letters and diaries, to allow soldiers to 'speak form themselves' about theirexperience of colonial.
'The Victorian soldier in Africa' re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period, 1874-1902 - the zenith of the Victorian imperial expansion - and does so from the perspective of the regimental soldier. Focusing on eight different encounters,…
"The Victorian soldier in Africa re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period from 1874 to 1902 - the zenith of the Victorian imperial expansion - and does so from the perspective of the regimental soldier." "This book provides insights on …
This book re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period 1874-1902. It uses using a range of sources, such as letters and diaries, to allow soldiers to 'speak form themselves' about their experience of colonial. This book re-examines the cam…
Römerzeit - Ernährung - Militärsiedlung.
"Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe the World War I from the Arab side, we follow the misadventu…
"Kurt Frank Korf's story is one of the most unusual to come out of World War II. Although German Americans were America's largest ethnic group, and German Americans - including thousands of native-born Germans - fought bravely in all theaters, there are few full first-person acc…
