Gordon Corrigan
Autor/a de Mud, Blood and Poppycock
Sobre l'autor
Gordon Corrigan is a member of the British Commission for Military History and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. He is the author of A Great and Glorious Adventure and The Second World War. Gordon lives in England.
Obres de Gordon Corrigan
A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England (2013) 100 exemplars
Crécy (Finest Hours Book 1) 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Corrigan, J. G. H.
- Data de naixement
- 1942-09-10
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
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Ressenyes
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Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 17
- Membres
- 657
- Popularitat
- #38,400
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 12
- ISBN
- 41
- Llengües
- 1
- Preferit
- 1
Corrigan instead presents a view where life in much of the trenches, much of the time, was pretty awful but just wasn't at the same peak as the most famous ongoing battles: materiel, logistics and morale simply couldn't have sustained that. Things that might disturb the damp, ratty status quo were unwelcome and those on a 'quiet' trench were thus no fans of a nearby trench mortar, or a gung ho raiding party from some new regiment. Such disturbances attracted reprisals and escalation, which neither side wanted.
An essential book, if only to confront the Donkey view. One might disagree, one might indeed see it as "revisionist nonsense", but the question is certainly a real one. It is also rather better supported than Clark's infamously subjective yet influential viewpoint.… (més)