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Trench Warfare 1914–1918

The Live and Let Live System

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  • © 1980

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Authors:
  1. Tony Ashworth
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A classic of military history about the smaller, personal battles of the First World War

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Tony Ashworth
    Pages 1-23

  3. The Elementary Forms of Live and Let Live: Christmas Truces, Fraternisation and Inertia. The Problems of Communication

    • Tony Ashworth
    Pages 24-47

  4. The Two Phases of Trench War. The Bureaucratisation of Trench Warfare (1): The Opportunity Structure of Aggression: Specialisation, its Growth and Development

    • Tony Ashworth
    Pages 48-75

  5. The Bureaucratisation of Trench Warfare (2): Impersonal and Centralised Control over Aggression

    • Tony Ashworth
    Pages 76-98

  6. The Response of the Trench Fighter: The Ritualisation of Aggression

    • Tony Ashworth
    Pages 99-128

  7. The Development and Maintenance of Live and Let Live (1): The Growth of Goodwill; Rewards for Compliance and Punishments for Deviance between Antagonists

    • Tony Ashworth
    Pages 129-152

  8. The Development and Maintenance of Live and Let Live (2): Rewards for Compliance and Punishments for Deviance among Compatriots

    • Tony Ashworth
    Pages 153-175

  9. Raiding: Its Causes and its Consequences for Live and Let Live

    • Tony Ashworth
    Pages 176-203

  10. Conclusion

    • Tony Ashworth
    Pages 204-226

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 227-266
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Trench Warfare 1914–1918

  • Book Subtitle: The Live and Let Live System

  • Authors: Tony Ashworth

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04356-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Tony Ashworth 1980

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-25766-1Published: 26 November 1980

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-04356-9Published: 27 November 1980

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 286

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social History, Cultural History

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