{"product_id":"2026200016228-secondhand-deaths-men-soldiers-of-the-great-war","title":"Death's Men: Soldiers Of The Great War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the mud-soaked trenches of the Western Front to the shattered landscapes of Gallipoli, Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War presents an unflinching portrait of the ordinary British soldier during the First World War — a man thrust into an industrial killing machine that neither his upbringing nor his imagination could have prepared him for. Denis Winter chronicles the full arc of the soldier's experience: recruitment, training, the chaos of battle, the grinding monotony of trench life, and the psychological toll of surviving when so many did not. Drawing on diaries, letters, and memoirs left behind by the men themselves, Winter constructs a vivid, ground-level account of what it truly meant to serve in the Great War.\n\nWinter's approach is as much social history as military narrative, arguing that the war irrevocably transformed the class structures, values, and self-perception of an entire generation of British men. Written with rigorous scholarship yet an accessible, humane voice, the work stands as a landmark contribution to First World War historiography — one that refuses to reduce its subjects to statistics or heroic archetypes. For anyone seeking to understand not just how the Great War was fought, but how it was *felt*, this essential volume will leave a profound and lasting impression.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342769365211,"sku":"2026200016228-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/6d372d33-89bd-484f-99b8-7fd9fac74130.png?v=1790048883","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016228-secondhand-deaths-men-soldiers-of-the-great-war","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}