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Red Coat, Green Machine : Continuity in Change in the British Army 1700 To 2000.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Birmingham War StudiesPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2012Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781472588517
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Red Coat, Green MachineDDC classification:
  • 356.10941
LOC classification:
  • UA650 -- .K575 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Series Editors' Preface -- Foreword by Richard Holmes -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: PRELIMINARY BOMBARDMENT -- 1 Forming Up -- 2 Looking Around -- PART II: THE GREEN MACHINE -- 3 Orders is Orders -- 4 Mates, Sirs and Unwritten Rules -- 5 Doing the Business -- 6 Being the Best -- 7 Pulling it Through - the Lived Experience -- PART III: KHAKI SHADING TO RED -- 8 Past Structures -- 9 Laws, Rules and Good Company -- 10 Unbroken Threads? -- PART IV: THE FOLLOW-THROUGH -- 11 Consolidation -- 12 Exploitation -- APPENDICES -- 1 Background Information on the Structure and Organization of Combat Arms Units in the British Army in the 1990s -- 2 Checklist Using the Model to Test for Authenticity of First-hand British Soldiers' Texts -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: How different were the men who fought at Blenheim and at Goose Green? Is there a human thread that connects the redcoat of 300 years ago with the British soldier of today? What would they find in common if they faced a common foe? This book is about the people in the Army, and the very human interactions between them in their daily lives. It marries the disciplines of Social Anthropology and Military History to provide a novel way of looking at the anatomy of the British Army at unit level from an entirely human perspective. Concentrating on the attitudes, expectations, and concerns expressed by the people involved, it sets out a set of simple models of life at regimental duty that can be used to describe, analyze and explain their behaviour over the past 300 years. The book is grounded on what soldiers of all ranks have said, using the authors research interview material for the modern witnesses, and memoirs, diaries, and letters (published and unpublished) for earlier ones.
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Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Series Editors' Preface -- Foreword by Richard Holmes -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: PRELIMINARY BOMBARDMENT -- 1 Forming Up -- 2 Looking Around -- PART II: THE GREEN MACHINE -- 3 Orders is Orders -- 4 Mates, Sirs and Unwritten Rules -- 5 Doing the Business -- 6 Being the Best -- 7 Pulling it Through - the Lived Experience -- PART III: KHAKI SHADING TO RED -- 8 Past Structures -- 9 Laws, Rules and Good Company -- 10 Unbroken Threads? -- PART IV: THE FOLLOW-THROUGH -- 11 Consolidation -- 12 Exploitation -- APPENDICES -- 1 Background Information on the Structure and Organization of Combat Arms Units in the British Army in the 1990s -- 2 Checklist Using the Model to Test for Authenticity of First-hand British Soldiers' Texts -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

How different were the men who fought at Blenheim and at Goose Green? Is there a human thread that connects the redcoat of 300 years ago with the British soldier of today? What would they find in common if they faced a common foe? This book is about the people in the Army, and the very human interactions between them in their daily lives. It marries the disciplines of Social Anthropology and Military History to provide a novel way of looking at the anatomy of the British Army at unit level from an entirely human perspective. Concentrating on the attitudes, expectations, and concerns expressed by the people involved, it sets out a set of simple models of life at regimental duty that can be used to describe, analyze and explain their behaviour over the past 300 years. The book is grounded on what soldiers of all ranks have said, using the authors research interview material for the modern witnesses, and memoirs, diaries, and letters (published and unpublished) for earlier ones.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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