THE MEN WITH BROKEN FACES by Marjorie Gehrhardt ( 9783034318693 )

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Title:

THE MEN WITH BROKEN FACES
"GUEULES CASSEES" OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

By:

Marjorie Gehrhardt

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

3034318693

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9783034318693

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Publisher:

PETER LANG AG, INTERNATIONALER VERLAG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN

Pub. date:

29 October, 2015

Series:

Cultural History & Literary Imagination 25

Pages:

304

Description:

This book explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of First World War facially disfigured combatants, with a special focus on France, Germany and Great Britain. It illuminates our understanding of how the combatant and the onlooker made sense of the experience and the memory of the war.

Synopsis:

Facially wounded servicemen were perhaps the ultimate victims of the First World War. They became walking reminders of the conflict and their experiences reveal the impact of the war not only on the combatants but also on European societies at large. This book explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of facially disfigured First World War combatants in France, Germany and Great Britain. The analysis undertaken in this book uncovers how the wounded perceived and presented themselves and how they were perceived and represented by others. Artistic and literary representations are considered, along with initiatives carried out by hospitals, the government and the combatants' fellow countrymen. With an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, this study illuminates our understanding of how the combatant and the onlooker made sense of the experience and the memory of the war.

Publication:

Switzerland

Imprint:

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

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