Men Under Fire : : Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918 / / Jiří Hutečka.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Hutečka, Jiří,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface to the English Edition -- Introduction -- 1. Tournament of Manliness: Mobilization -- 2. Compromises of Manliness: Everyday Experience -- 3. Transformation of Manliness: Comradeship -- 4. Degradation of Manliness: The Military Authorities -- 5. Venues of Manliness: Home -- 6. Manliness under Fire: Combat and the Body -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index