Men Under Fire

Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918

Jiří Hutečka (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-930-7 (ISBN)

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In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the question of these soldiers’ imperial loyalties has dominated the historical literature to the exclusion of any debate on their identities and experiences. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings to explore experiences of exhaustion, sex, loyalty, authority, and combat itself. It combines methods from history, gender studies, and military science to reveal the extent to which the Great War challenged these men’s senses of masculinity, and to which the resulting dynamics influenced their attitudes and loyalties.

Jiří Hutečka is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of History at the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. He holds a doctorate from the Palacký University in Olomouc and has published several books in the Czech language.

List of illustrations

Preface to the English Edition

Introduction

Chapter 1. Tournament of Manliness: Mobilization

Chapter 2. Compromises of Manliness: Everyday Experience

Chapter 3. Transformation of Manliness: Comradeship

Chapter 4. The Degradation of Manliness: The Military Authorities

Chapter 5. Venues of Manliness: Home

Chapter 6. Manliness under Fire: Combat and the Body

Conclusion

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Austrian and Habsburg Studies
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-80073-930-3 / 1800739303
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-930-7 / 9781800739307
Zustand	Neuware