Killer Butterflies Roberts James
Killer Butterflies Roberts James In this ground-breaking work, James Roberts examines the willingness and ability of British volunteer and conscript infantrymen of the Great War to perform the…
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Killer Butterflies Roberts James
In this ground-breaking work, James Roberts examines the willingness and ability of British volunteer and conscript infantrymen of the Great War to perform the soldier's fundamental role: to kill or maim the enemy, and accept the attendant chance of being killed or wounded. This study recovers this neglected narrative through the experiences of 19th (Western) Division, as recorded in their unit war diaries - a source generated primarily to record the experiences of combat. The literature to date has been, paradoxically, somewhat silent on the soldier's part in the act of killing.
But they also reveal much lesser known and understood aspects of the soldier's behaviour in combat. The study's findings offer testimony to the courage and endurance of the Great War soldier in circumstances of terrible hardship and suffering. Many infantrymen were unable and/or unwilling to traverse the