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Time to kill, the soldier's experience of war in the West, 1939-1945, edited by Paul Addison and Angus Calder ; with a foreword by Len Deighton

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Time to kill

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edited by Paul Addison and Angus Calder ; with a foreword by Len Deighton

the soldier's experience of war in the West, 1939-1945

Foreword / Len Deighton -- Preface / Paul Addison and Angus Calder, Towards a theory of combat motivation, John Keegan, Reflections on the 'sharp end' of war, John Ellis -- The, Scottish soldier : reality and the armchair experience, Diana M. Henderson -- The, shadow of the Somme : the influence of the First World War on British soldiers' perceptions and behaviour in the Second World War, G. D. Sheffield -- The, British Field Force in France and Belgium, I939-40, Brian Bond -- The, real Dad's Army : the British Home Guard, 1940-44, S. P. MacKenzie -- The, British soldier on the home front : army morale reports, 1940-45, J. A. Craig -- ', Twas England bade our wild geese go' : soldiers of Ireland in the Second World War, Ian S. Wood, 'If I fight for them, maybe then I can go back to the village' : African soldiers in the Mediterranean and European campaigns, 1939-45, David Killingray, 'Matters of honour' : Indian troops in the North African and Italian theatres, Gerald Douds, Mr Wu and the colonials : the British Empire's evacuation from Crete, 1941, Angus Calder, 'If this war isn't over, and pretty damn soon, there'll be nobody left, in this old platoon...' : First Canadian Army, February-March 1945, Terry Copp, 'No taste for the fight'? : French combat performance in 1940 and the politics of the fall of France, Martin S. Alexander -- The, Italian soldier in combat, June 1943 : myths, realities and explanations, Brian R. Sullivan -- The, Italian job : five armies in Italy, 1943-45, Richard Holmes, Peasant scapegoat to industrial slaughter : the Romanian soldier at the Siege of Odessa, Mark Axworthy, Red Army battlefield performance, 1941-45 : the system and the soldier, John Erickson, Offensive women : women in combat in the Red Army, Reina Pennington, Motivation and indoctrination in the Wehrmacht, 1933-45, Jürgen Förster -- The, German soldier in occupied Russia, Theo J. Schulte, Who fought and why? The assignment of American soldiers to combat, Theodore A. Wilson -- The, GI in Europe and the American military tradition, Reid Mitchell, 'Puir bluidy swaddies are weary' : Sicily, 1943 infantry combat : a GI in France, 1944, Hamish Henderson, Steve Weiss, Trauma and absence : France and Germany, 1914-45, Omer Bartov, Oral history and British soldiers' experience of battle in the Second World War, Nigel de Lee -- The, soldier's experience in two world wars : some historiographical comparisons, Hew Strachan