Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 285 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520220080
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9780520923522
Content:
Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In The War Come Home, Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent nations--Germany and Britain--cared for their disabled
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-278) and index
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Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reconciliation and Stability; 1 A Voluntary Peace: British Veterans, Philanthropy, and the State; 2 The Nation Accused: German Veterans and the State Regulation of Charity; 3 Life as a Memorial: Ex-Servicemen at the Margins of British Society; 4 Life Reconstructed: The Reintegration of German Veterans; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520220089
Additional Edition:
Print version The War Come Home : Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939
Language:
English
