Enduring Battle - 9780700617753

University Press of Kansas

Enduring BattleAmerican Soldiers in Three Wars, 1776-1945\nAuthor(s): Christopher H. Hamner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Kansas, United States\nImprint: University Press of Kansas\nISBN-13: 9780700617753, 978-0700617753\nSynopsis\nThroughout history, battlefields have placed a soldiers instinct for self-preservation in direct opposition to the armys insistence that he do his duty and put himself in harms way. Enduring Battle looks beyond advances in weaponry to examine changes in warfare at the very personal level. Drawing on the combat experiences of American soldiers in three widely separated warsthe Revolution, the Civil War, and World War IIChristopher Hamner explores why soldiers fight in the face of terrifying lethal threats and how they manage to suppress their fears, stifle their instincts, and marshal the will to kill other humans. Hamner contrasts the experience of infantry combat on the ground in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when soldiers m.