How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? If you're the US Army in 1944, one of your approaches is dangling the lure of beautiful French women, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. Roberts tells the troubling sto…
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? If you're the US Army in 1944, one of your approaches is dangling the lure of beautiful French women, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. Roberts tells the troubling sto…
The young Hungarian artist Bela Zombory-Moldovan was abroad on vacation when World War I broke out in August 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing on Russian lines, or perhaps on his own lines, and facing relentless rifle and artill…
"Nearly every day an active-duty soldier in the United States military resorts to suicide, and nearly every hour a veteran does the same. In recent years the problem of military suicides has reached epidemic proportions, but it's all too easy for most of us to gloss over the hea…
"Nearly every day an active-duty soldier in the United States military resorts to suicide, and nearly every hour a veteran does the same. In recent years the problem of military suicides has reached epidemic proportions, but it's all too easy for most of us to gloss over the hea…
An examination of the political issues and causes of veterans of the U.S. military.
The study of military veterans and politics has been a growing area of interest, but most research on the topic has remained isolated in specific, unconnected fields of inquiry. This is a multidisciplinary, comprehensive examination of the American veteran experience. The editor…
Chris Kyle (f. 1974) fortæller om sine erfaringer på slagmarken i Irak, om træningen, om den uendelige ventetid mellem sammenstødene med fjenden, om drabene og om sine følelser, når kammeraterne blev såret eller dræbt
This title tells the story of the wives and children who were left behind as their husbands, fathers, and brothers fought and died in the First World War. The book features 50 interviews, private diaries, and a collection of unpublished letters written by the soldiers to their f…
"Starting from the observation that soldier participation in violence varies, this book looks into the dynamics of small military units to show how shifting modes of military control shape patterns of participation in violence in counterinsurgency"--
What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back? As long as humans have lived together on the planet, there have been wars, and injured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars across the globe with increasingly sophisticated technology…
Explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of First World War facially disfigured combatants, with a special focus on France, Germany and Great Britain. The analysis undertaken in this book uncovers how the wounded perceived and presented themselves a…
Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in the era of nineteenth-cent…
Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. As the centuries unfolded, however, Praetorian soldiers served not only as protectors and enforcers but also as powerful political players world's empires
"This book was inspired by the author's discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unmentioned for many decades. I…