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Dying for France: Experiencing and Representing the Soldier s Death, 1500 2000 (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas, 87)
In the past century Western attitudes toward the soldiers death have undergone a remarkable transformation. Widely accepted at the time of the First World War when nearly ten million soldiers died in uniform as a redemptive sacrifice on behalf of the nation, the soldiers death is increasingly regarded as an unacceptable tragedy. In Read more