The Clergy in Khaki (Ashgate Studies in First World War History)

by Michael Snape (Author), EdwardMadigan (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $151.44

  Army chaplains have not fared well in the mythology of the Great War. Alongside Blimpish generals they are generally characterized as embodiments of the callous futility and hypocrisy that left the battlefields of the Western Front littered with corpses. Yet, as historians have begun to reassess the motives and performance of generals.