Red Coat, Green Machine: Continuity in Change in the British Army 1700 to 2000: Birmingham War Studies
Autor Dr Charles Kirkeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 noi 2011
How different were the men who fought at Blenheim and at Goose Green? Is there a human thread that connects the redcoat of 300 years ago with the British soldier of today? What would they find in common if they faced a common foe?
This book is about the people in the Army, and the very human interactions between them in their daily lives. It marries the disciplines of Social Anthropology and Military History to provide a novel way of looking at the anatomy of the British Army at unit level from an entirely human perspective. Concentrating on the attitudes, expectations, and concerns expressed by the people involved, it sets out a set of simple models of life at regimental duty that can be used to describe, analyze and explain their behaviour over the past 300 years.
The book is grounded on what soldiers of all ranks have said, using the author's research interview material for the modern witnesses, and memoirs, diaries, and letters (published and unpublished) for earlier ones.
This book is about the people in the Army, and the very human interactions between them in their daily lives. It marries the disciplines of Social Anthropology and Military History to provide a novel way of looking at the anatomy of the British Army at unit level from an entirely human perspective. Concentrating on the attitudes, expectations, and concerns expressed by the people involved, it sets out a set of simple models of life at regimental duty that can be used to describe, analyze and explain their behaviour over the past 300 years.
The book is grounded on what soldiers of all ranks have said, using the author's research interview material for the modern witnesses, and memoirs, diaries, and letters (published and unpublished) for earlier ones.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781441164773
ISBN-10: 1441164774
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Seria Birmingham War Studies
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1441164774
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Seria Birmingham War Studies
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Offers leading and original research as part of the important new Birmingham War Studies series.
Notă biografică
Charles Kirke is Lecturer in Military Anthropology and Human Factors at Cranfield University, UK.
Cuprins
Areas that this model illuminates include:
- Officer/soldier relationships.
- Attitudes towards discipline and keeping (or bending) the rules.
- Formal and informal communications within the unit.
- The Regimental System, and the aspect of 'belonging'.
- Attitudes towards the craft and skills of 'soldiering'.
- The effects of the wider British society on life in the unit.
- Officer/soldier relationships.
- Attitudes towards discipline and keeping (or bending) the rules.
- Formal and informal communications within the unit.
- The Regimental System, and the aspect of 'belonging'.
- Attitudes towards the craft and skills of 'soldiering'.
- The effects of the wider British society on life in the unit.
Recenzii
A fresh approach to the study of the British Army ... This is a sound and well-argued study that has much to commend it.