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The war come home : disabled veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939 / Deborah Cohen.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Deborah, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disabled veterans--Germany--History--20th century.
- Disabled veterans.
- Disabled veterans--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--Germany--Care.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--Great Britain--Care.
- Germany--History--20th century.
- Germany.
- Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-92352-9
- 1-59734-985-2
- OCLC:
- 475930445
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