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Author(s): Deborah Cohen
ISBN(s): 9781417523573, 1417523573
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.26 MB
Year: 2001
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1417523573 
ISBN 13: 9781417523573
Author: Deborah Cohen

Disabled veterans were the First World War’s most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In The War Come Home, Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent nations–Germany and Britain–cared for their disabled.

At the heart of this book is an apparent paradox. Although postwar Germany provided its disabled veterans with generous benefits, they came to despise the state that favored them. Disabled men proved susceptible to the Nazi cause. By contrast, British ex-servicemen remained loyal subjects, though they received only meager material compensation. Cohen explores the meaning of this paradox by focusing on the interplay between state agencies and private philanthropies on one hand, and the evolving relationship between disabled men and the general public on the other.

Written with verve and compassion, The War Come Home describes in affecting detail disabled veterans’ lives and their treatment at the hands of government agencies and private charities in Britain and Germany. Cohen’s study moves from the intimate confines of veterans’ homes to the offices of high-level bureaucrats; she tells of veterans’ protests, of disabled men’s families, and of the well-heeled philanthropists who made a cause of the war’s victims. This superbly researched book provides an important new perspective on the ways in which states and societies confront the consequences of industrialized warfare.

The War Come Home Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany 1914 1939 1st Table of contents:

PART I: Civil Society in the Great War’s Aftermath

  1. A Voluntary Peace: British Veterans, Philanthropy, and the State

    • A Land Fit for Heroes

    • The Voluntarists Take Charge

    • Service, Not Self

  2. The Nation Accused: German Veterans and the State Regulation of Charity

    • The Thanks of the Fatherland

    • Benevolence Regulated

    • Veterans versus the Public

PART II: The War’s Returns

  1. Life as a Memorial: Ex‑Servicemen at the Margins of British Society

    • Seeking Work

    • The Objects of Charity

    • Shattered Soldier Laughs at Fate

  2. Life Reconstructed: The Reintegration of German Veterans

    • The Iron Will to Work

    • The Subjects of Welfare

    • For Wounded and Unconquered Soldiers

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