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The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War

Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war.
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Cornell University Press, uuuu
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9780801471216, 9780801445231, 0801471214, 080144523X
1091516732
Introduction: Experience, Narrative, and Narrator in the Great War1. Rites of Passage and the Initiation to Combat2. The Mastery of Survival: Death, Mutilation, and Killing3. The Genre of Consent4. The Novel and the Search for ClosureConclusionBibliographyIndex