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Reflections on the Battlefield
Robert J. Rider
其他書名
From Infantryman to Chaplain 1914-1919
出版
Liverpool University Press
, 2001-01-01
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Military
Biography & Autobiography / Religious
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War I
Religion / Christianity / Methodist
ISBN
0853238979
9780853238973
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ewefZKsFM6sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 Rider was in a minority among chaplains, being a Methodist chaplain. In August 1914, Rider, aged twenty-five, was about to begin his third year of training for the ministry of the Wesleyan Methodist church, at Handsworth Theological College in Birmingham. Two months later he had enlisted with the First Birmingham Battalion, later termed the 14th Battalion, of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Rider's first-hand accounts of Ypres, the Somme and Arras reveal a man morally opposed to war and yet adamant that Germany and her allies needed to be defeated.
Reflections on the Battlefield
provides us with a personal and valuable contribution to the present-day debate about the contemporary understanding of the ethics of war, as expressed on the World War I battlefield.