This book utilises the growing phenomenon of British soldier narratives from Iraq and
Afghanistan to explore how British soldiers make sense of their role on these complex, multi …

This paper argues for the continued significance of the text as a source and focus in critical
geopolitical inquiry. It establishes the utility of the military memoir in explorations of popular …

Organisation studies has paid little attention to the contemporary private security industry,
despite its enormous recent growth as a supplement to or replacement for state military …

The limitations of conventional accounts of security and peacebuilding drawing upon the
'expert'knowledge of military elites, policymakers and civil society representatives have been …

This article explores the role of the covers of military memoirs in articulating and reproducing
ideas about men at war. Drawing on the range of published military memoirs about service …

Reading secondary data from military memoirs of recent conflicts through the prism of
scholarship on emotional labour, this paper discusses feeling rules fostered by the total …

Although usually marketed as single-authored, interviews with the authors of military
memoirs indicated the significance of collaboration with others throughout their writing and …

This article aims to enable a conversation between cosmopolitan thought, with focus on
individual ethical experiences and reflections, and research on embodied military …

What does feminism have to offer the debate on the British approach to counterinsurgency?
We argue that gender is a valuable analytical tool that can shed light on why some policies …

In this chapter, we define the sole form of text with which Bringing War to Book is concerned,
the contemporary military memoir. We start by introducing the genre, and its twin goals of …