1st Edition
Soldiers and Their Horses Sense, Sentimentality and the Soldier-Horse Relationship in The Great War
Introduction: "A Vague Smell of Heresy"
1. "The Most Vital Question of All": Military Reform and Social Change in Britain, 1899-1914
2. "A Weapon in the Hands of the Allies": The Remount Service and the Army Veterinary Corps during The Great War
3. "Humanity, Efficiency and Economy": Sympathetic Consideration and the Soldier-Horse Relationship, 1914-1918
4. "For King and Country": How the Soldier-Horse Relationship was Portrayed during The Great War
5. "Mortal Immortals": Remembering and Forgetting the Soldier-Horse Relationship, 1918-1939
Conclusion: "Until the Slate is Washed Clean"
Biography
Jane Flynn PhD is a teacher, historian, and writer with research interests in myth, memory, national identity, and the visual representation of work and war. Jane blogs on www.janeflynn-senseandsentimentality.com and hosts the Facebook group ‘Horses and History’. She brings a lifelong passion for horses to her work.
"Flynn weaves together military requirements for horses, the development of an effective remount service, the linked questions of how to train horses and riders, the rise of Britain’s animal rights movement, problems of maintaining the feeding, health, and well being of the animals, and “wastage”. [...]A volume in the Routledge series “Studies in Cultural History”, Soldiers and their Horses is an excellent book both for those interested in the Great War and those with an interest in the military horse"
-Jane Flynn, StrategyPage, The NYMAS Review
