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Millions of men lived in the trenches during World War I. More than six million died there. In Eye-Deep in Hell, the author of the widely acclaimed Social History of the Machine Gun explores this unique and terrifying world - the rituals of battle, the habits of daily life, and the constant struggle of men to find meaning amid excruciating boredom and the specter of impending death.
Ellis begins by descibing the physical construction of the trenches, their size and shape, their peculiarities and characteristics. He succinctly portrays the soldiers' daily life: how they ate, drank, slept, joked, fought off rats and lice, how their sexual needs were met, and how they endured marches and patrols. But it is in the ways men sought meaning in their daily lives that Ellis reveals the true nature of warfare. In analyzing how the habits and regulations so dear to the military mind became entrenched in the organization of the battlefield, Eye Deep in Hell brilliantly depicts the instinctive desire of men in battle to create order out of chaos. In the soldier's personal reflections and letters home, Ellis discovers a literature of compassion and courage, and a capacity to endure in a world where men fought, for reasons they hardly understood, for a future most had ceased to believe in.
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Eye-Deep in Hell: The Western Front 1914-18
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback. 214 pages, illustrated with more than 130 paintings, drawings and photographs, index. Paperback. This is a study of the Western Front and the millions of men who fought along this desolate strip of land. The author describes how trenches were designed and dug, the tactics of trench warfare, the day-to-day routines such as kit inspection and siting latrines, and even how the troops managed to entertain themselves. Size: 4to. Seller Inventory # 023014
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. GC.Purnell book by arrangement with Helm,1976.Book Club Edition.Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,light shelf wear on the edges of the cover,small nick on the front cover)with Dj(some creases,nicks and scratches on the Dj cover),both in GC.Illustrated with over 130 paintings,drawings,maps and b/w photos.Nice and clean pages but slightly tainted on the outer edges,two pencil marks impressions on the edge of the first blank page of the book,light shelf wear inside the Dj cover.215pp including index. This is another paragraph Product Description: For four years the French, British and German armies fought in mud and squalor. Eye-deep in Hell is concerned with the millions of men who lived and died in the desolate strip that was the western front, the wilderness - of trenches, dugouts, shattered villages and forests of lifeless tree stumps - that was a physical and spiritual desert. The book shows how even in previously inconceivable conditions men were able to formulate routines, rules and codes of conduct that could create some kind of order in the midst of chaos itself. Seller Inventory # 799
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