Soldiers (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Ziegler
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: Britain, the British Empire, and the theaters of World Wars I and II
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Twentieth century, World War II, Class consciousness, Violence, War, Fathers, Working class, World War I, Military life or service, Soldiers, Hospitals, Imperialism, Great Britain
- Locales: Europe, Great Britain
In his deceptively modest Soldiers: Fighting Men’s Lives, 1901-2001, Philip Ziegler explores an enduring question: Why do soldiers fight? Individual human violence can be explained in a variety of ways, ranging from original sin to social deprivation, but there has always been a recognition that something beyond a personal proclivity for mayhem keeps men to their duty in the brutal chaos of a battlefield. Over the centuries many writers, from the ancient Greek poet Archilochus to the American philosopher J. Glenn Gray, have attempted to explain the mysterious allure of combat....
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