Reflections on the Battlefield: From Infantryman to Chaplain 1914-1919 Volume 19

by R.J. Rider and Robert J. Rider

When Robert J. Rider died in 1961, he left to his descendants a typescript text, tentatively entitled Flashbacks, which would eventually become Reflections on the Battlefield. Broadly autobiographical, this text offers a unique account of its author who fought as an infantryman while also serving as a chaplain, thus exposing himself in peculiar directness to the ambiguities of chaplaincy service on the battlefield. A further particularity is that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853238871
• ISBN13: 9780853238874
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"