Citation

Wilson R. Hist. Res. 2008; 81(211): 150-166.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1468-2281.2007.00424.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Recent scholarship has reinvigorated the study of the battlefields of the Western Front. Inspired by these advances and, especially, the advent of an archaeological agenda on the former fields of conflict, this article examines how British soldiers reacted with the landscape and materials which surrounded them. Using archive material to build an ethnographic study, the article investigates violence and death in the battlefield and how the soldiers responded to this hostile environment.