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Faith Under Fire: Anglican Army Chaplains and the Great War

Drawing on a diverse range of overlooked sources, Faith Under Fire reassesses the wartime reputations, rhetoric and experiences of the Anglican chaplains who served with the British army during the Great War. It challenges myths about the role the clergy played and traces the emergence of these myths in the post-war period. The study thus offers a new way of seeing British cultural mobilisation for war and the relationship between religiosity and morale at the front, and so fills a major gap in the social, cultural and military historiography of the First World War.