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The embattled self
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ISBN: 0801471206 1322523037 0801471214 9780801471216 9780801479564 0801479568 9780801445231 080144523X 9780801471209 9781322523033 Year: 2007 Publisher: Ithaca, New York

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How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war. In order to do so, they used a variety of narrative tools at hand-rites of passage, mastery, a character of the soldier as a consenting citizen of the Republic. None of the resulting versions of the story provided a completely consistent narrative, and all raised more questions about the "truth" of experience than they answered. Eventually, a story revolving around tragedy and the soldier as victim came to dominate-even to silence-other types of accounts. In thematic chapters, Leonard V. Smith explains why the novel structured by a specific notion of trauma prevailed by the 1930's. Smith canvasses the vast literature of nonfictional and fictional testimony from French soldiers to understand how and why the "embattled self" changed over time. In the process, he undermines the conventional understanding of the war as tragedy and its soldiers as victims, a view that has dominated both scholarly and popular opinion since the interwar period. The book is important reading not only for traditional historians of warfare but also for scholars in a variety of fields who think critically about trauma and the use of personal testimony in literary and historical studies.

Ennemis fraternels (1914-1915) : Hans Rodewald, Antoine Bieisse, Fernand Tailhades. Carnets de guerre et de captivité
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ISBN: 2858166161 2810708894 9782858166169 Year: 2019 Publisher: Toulouse : Presses universitaires du Midi,

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Chacun sait à quel point les témoignages de soldats constituent une mine de renseignements pour l'histoire de la Grande Guerre. Les trois carnets reproduits ici présentent l'originalité d'émaner de combattants des deux camps. Hans Rodewald était allemand, Antoine Bieisse et Fernand Tailhades étaient français. Emportés par l'enthousiasme d'août 1914, les trois fantassins doivent rapidement faire face au concret qui produit un mélange d'excitation, d'angoisse et de compassion. Gravement blessés, tombés au pouvoir de l'adversaire, ils craignent pour leur vie mais sont soignés par des mains qui se révèlent fraternelles. Les trois hommes font l'expérience de l'humanité de ceux qu'ils désignaient jusque là par le terme convenu d'ennemi. Ce livre révèle la complexité et l'ambivalence de la pensée des combattants. Il apporte un nouveau démenti à la thèse simpliste qui veut que la haine de l'ennemi aurait éclipsé tout autre sentiment. Il montre que, sous un vernis de “culture de guerre”, existait aussi, plus profonde, une véritable “culture de paix”.


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The new book of martyrs
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ISBN: 0665991606 Year: 1918 Publisher: Toronto : J.M. Dent,

Fleeing Hitler : France 1940
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ISBN: 1281146900 9786611146900 0191517445 1429498528 9780191517440 0192806181 9780192806185 9781281146908 9781429498524 6611146903 9780199532599 0199532591 1383002843 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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The author presents an account of how the fall of France in 1940 affected the lives of ordinary French people, and how it became a defining experience for France in the 20th century.

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