{"product_id":"violence-and-the-german-soldier-in-the-great-war-killing-dying-surviving-paperback","title":"Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War: Killing, Dying, Surviving - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Ziemann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated into English as the Winner of the Geisteswissenschaften International Translation Prize for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2015.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the Great War, mass killing took place on an unprecedented scale. \u003ci\u003eViolence and the German Soldier in the Great War \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the practice of violence in the German army and demonstrates how he killing of enemy troops, the deaths of German soldiers and their survival were entwined. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As the war reached its climax in 1918, German soldiers refused to continue killing in their droves, and thus made an active contribution to the German defeat and ensuing revolution. Examining the postwar period, the chapters of this book also discuss the contested issue of a 'brutalization' of German society as a prerequisite of the Nazi mass movement. Biographical case studies on key figures such as Ernst Jünger demonstrate how the killing of enemy troops by German soldiers followed a complex set of rules.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Benjamin Ziemann makes a wealth of extensive archival work available to an Anglophone audience for the first time, enhancing our understanding of the German army and its practices of violence during the First World War as well as the implications of this brutalization in post-war Germany. This book provides new insights into a crucial topic for students of twentieth-century German history and the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Ziemann\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is the author of many books and articles on twentieth-century German and European history and a renowned expert in the comparative military and cultural history of the First World War. His books include \u003ci\u003eContested Commemorations: Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(2013)\u003ci\u003e, War Experiences in Rural Germany, 1914-1923\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and as co-editor, \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding the Imaginary War: Culture, Thought and Nuclear Conflict, 1945-90\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e (2016).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42121871491207,"sku":"9781350106116","price":86.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6119f74068770303753c20b2c473314f.webp?v=1732556497","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/violence-and-the-german-soldier-in-the-great-war-killing-dying-surviving-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}