The stomach for fighting : food and the soldiers of the Great War
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The stomach for fighting : food and the soldiers of the Great War
（Cultural history of modern war）
Manchester University Press, 2015
- : pbk
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First published in hardback: 2012
Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-260) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Food is critical to military performance, but it is also central to social interaction and fundamental to our sense of identity. The soldiers of the Great War did not shed their eating preferences with their civilian clothes, and the army rations, heavily reliant on bully beef and hardtack biscuit, were frequently found wanting. Nutritional science of the day had only a limited understanding of the role of vitamins and minerals, and the men were often presented with a diet that, shortages and logistics permitting, was high in calories but low in flavour and variety. Just as now, soldiers on active service were linked with home through the lovingly packed food parcels they received; a taste of home in the trenches.
This book uses the personal accounts of the men themselves to explore a subject that was central not only to their physical health, but also to their emotional survival. -- .
Table of Contents
1. Food and war
2. Before the war
3. First taste: eating in the home camps
4. Feeding the men: army provisioning, the cooks and the ASC
5. Eating: the men and their rations
6. Beyond the ration: scrounging, supplementing and sharing
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index -- .
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