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020			_a9781139020381 (ebook)
020			_z9780521837613 (hardback)
020			_z9781316612217 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aD546 _b.G53 2014
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100	1		_aGibson, Craig, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBehind the Front : _bBritish Soldiers and French Civilians, 1914–1918 / _cCraig Gibson.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (480 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
490	0		_aStudies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare ; _v40
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aUntil now scholars have looked for the source of the indomitable Tommy morale on the Western Front in innate British bloody-mindedness and irony, not to mention material concerns such as leave, food, rum, brothels, regimental pride, and male bonding. However, re-examining previously used sources alongside never-before consulted archives, Craig Gibson shifts the focus away from battle and the trenches to times behind the front, where the British intermingled with a vast population of allied civilians, whom Lord Kitchener had instructed the troops to 'avoid'. Besides providing a comprehensive examination of soldiers' encounters with local French and Belgian inhabitants which were not only unavoidable but also challenging, symbiotic and uplifting in equal measure, Gibson contends that such relationships were crucial to how the war was fought on the Western Front and, ultimately, to British victory in 1918. What emerges is a novel interpretation of the British and Dominion soldier at war.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521837613
830		0	_aStudies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare ; _v40.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139020381
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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