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_aHolmes, Richard, _d1946-2011. _1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqbpFP8htbvBfrk3c9qwC |
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_aActs of war : _bthe behaviour of men in battle / _cRichard Holmes. |
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_aLondon : _bCassell Military, _c2004. |
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_axii, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, portraits ; _c20 cm. |
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_atext _btxt _2rdacontent |
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| 490 | 1 | _aCassell military paperbacks | |
| 500 | _aOriginally published: as Firing line. London: Random House, 1985. | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aStart line -- Mysterious fraternity -- The painful field -- Eptiome of war -- Pale battalions -- Real enemy -- Competition, diffidence and glory -- Precarious valour -- I am the enemy -- A peaceful world. | |
| 520 | _aThe reality of what it is to be a soldier, by Britain's foremost military historian. This ambitious, wide-ranging, exhaustively researched book is a compelling attempt to grasp the very nature of war. It takes us through the soldier's experience in its entirety - from the humiliation of basic training and the intense comradeship of army life, to the terror, isolation and exhaustion of battle. What does it feel like to be in the firing line? How does killing change a man? And what do the extreme conditions of war reveal about a man's basic instincts, his courage or his fear, his urge for self-preservation or self-sacrifice? Covering several centuries of warfare, and including the personal recollections of veterans from two World Wars, from Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands and the Arab-Israeli conflicts, Richard Holmes gives us a powerful picture of what motivates the soldier and enables him to maintain the struggle in conditions of extreme degradation and danger. | ||
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_aSoldiers _xPsychology. |
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_aWar _xPsychological aspects. |
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_aWar _xMoral and ethical aspects. |
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_aSoldiers _xPsychology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01125290 |
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_aWar _xMoral and ethical aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01170352 |
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_aHolmes, Richard, _d1946-2011. _tFiring line. |
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_ihas work: _aFiring line (Text) _1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCH4xF4dPrtYRPyDPyJdh9C _4https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork |
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