John F Morris: Students to Soldiers, Gebunden

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"This project investigates three distinct models of officer acculturation-the British public schools, the monarchical cadet schools in Imperial Germany, Austria, and Russia, and the US Military Academy-and compares the subterranean practices, rituals, and codes at these schools. These, John Morris argues, were actually quite similar and instilled the shared and recursive sets of values and behaviors that constituted European and American officer cultures for the nineteenth and crucial decades of the twentieth century"--