Making Sense of the Great War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781009168748)

The First World War was an unprecedented crisis, with communities and societies enduring the unimaginable hardships of a prolonged conflict on an industrial scale. In Belgium and France, the terrible capacity of modern weaponry destroyed the natural world and exposed previously held truths about military morale and tactics as falsehoods. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered some of the worst conditions that combatants have ever faced. How did they survive? What did it mean to them? How did they perceive these events? Whilst the trenches of the Western Front have come to symbolise the futility and hopelessness of the Great War, Alex Mayhew shows that English infantrymen rarely interpreted their experiences in this way. They sought to survive, navigated the crises that confronted them, and crafted meaningful narratives about their service. Making Sense of the Great War reveals the mechanisms that allowed them to do so.

Author: Alex Mayhew
ISBN-10: 1009168746
ISBN-13: 9781009168748
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2025
Pages: 388
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d