This study of the military experience is an attempt to grasp the very nature of war. We are shown the humiliation of basic training, the soldier's attitude to fear, the compelling effect of personal leadership, the drive for sex and loot, the elixir of comradeship. Covering two centuries and including the recollections of veterans from two World Wars, from Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands and the Arab-Israeli conflicts, Richard Holmes gives us a powerful picture of what motivates the soldier and enables him to maintain the ...
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This study of the military experience is an attempt to grasp the very nature of war. We are shown the humiliation of basic training, the soldier's attitude to fear, the compelling effect of personal leadership, the drive for sex and loot, the elixir of comradeship. Covering two centuries and including the recollections of veterans from two World Wars, from Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands and the Arab-Israeli conflicts, Richard Holmes gives us a powerful picture of what motivates the soldier and enables him to maintain the struggle in conditions of extreme degradation and danger.
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Bridlington,
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" (UK) 1st publication. No markings, Very Good in unclipped Very Good dust jacket with faint scratched to cover panel not breaking the paper surface. (Or perhaps lfine ridging of dust jackt coating) Hardcover, 436pp, index, B&W photo plates. From the jacket: Drawing on written accounts of war over the past two centuries, and on spoken recollections of veterans fromtwo World Wars, from Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands and the Arab-Israeli conflicts, the author builds up an astonishing picture of what motivtes the soldier and enables him to maintain the struggle in conditions of physical and mental degradation, always accompanied by the threat of sudden death or of unthinkable agony from disfiguring wounds." (2.1 JM 0732.
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