Strange hells: a new approach on the Western Front

Author: Wilson, Ross

Source: Historical Research, Volume 81, Number 211, February 2008 , pp. 150-166(17)

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Abstract:

Recent scholarship has reinvigorated the study of the battlefields of the Western Front. Inspired by these advances and, especially, the advent of an archaeological agenda on the former fields of conflict, this article examines how British soldiers reacted with the landscape and materials which surrounded them. Using archive material to build an ethnographic study, the article investigates violence and death in the battlefield and how the soldiers responded to this hostile environment.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2007.00424.x

Affiliations: 1: University of York

Publication date: 2008-02-01