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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Praise
Contents
List of Main Characters
List of Illustrations and Maps
Plates
Preface and Acknowledgements
Prologue
Part I: Going to War
1 ‘Quiet Earnest Faces’: The National Cause
2 ‘Glad to Go’: Patriotic Idealism
3 ‘Ready to Go’: Training
Part II: At The Front
4 ‘Write as Often as You Can’: Letters and Parcels
5 ‘Sticking it Out’: Fear and Shell Shock
6 ‘A Certain Sense of Safety with Him’: Leadership
7 ‘Such a Helpless Lot of Babes’: Care for the Men
8 ‘Drops of his Blood on my Hand’: Horror and Endurance
9 ‘I Merely Did my Duty’: Discipline and Morale
10 ‘Very Gallant in Every Way’: Early Losses
11 ‘Blighty, oh Blighty in about a Week’: Leave
12 ‘I Am Serene, Unafraid’: The Somme
13 ‘Capable of Finishing the Job’: Battles of 1917–1918
14 ‘The Men Cannot Grasp It’: Armistice
PART III: SACRIFICE
15 ‘We Will Remember Them’: Remembrance and Commemoration
16 ‘All the Best and Choicest and Unblemished’: War Heroes
17 ‘Among the Happiest Years I Have Ever Spent’: Survivors
Epilogue: The Great War in Perspective
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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