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The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939 . By Deborah Cohen. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2001. Pp. 285. $50.00. ISBN 0-520-22008-0.

Deborah Cohen's aim in The War Come Home is to explore the conditions for political stability in interwar Western Europe, and she approaches this problem through the comparative analysis of the different regimes established for providing for disabled veterans in Britain and Germany. Cohen's analysis is organized neatly around a central paradox: how is it, she asks, that in Britain, where the national government rejected all direct responsibility for the care of disabled veterans and relied instead upon the inadequate efforts of voluntary associations to provide for these men, disabled veterans were so thoroughly integrated into the established order, while in Weimar Germany, where the republican welfare state made provision for disabled veterans into one of its highest priorities and set up the world's most advanced system of rehabilitative care to help reintegrate these men into society as productive citizens, the radicalization of disabled veterans contributed so greatly to the overthrow of the republic and the rise of Nazism? Cohen's answer is that the relative degree of political radicalism of veterans in the two countries depended on the extent to which the public recognized the sacrifices they had made during the war and reintegrated them symbolically into the community. Her thesis is that the voluntarist regime established in Britain proved to be far more successful in meeting the symbolic needs of these men and depoliticizing potential conflicts than was the case in Germany, where a state monopoly on assistance to disabled veterans intensified these political antagonisms while rendering public recognition of their sacrifice much more problematic. This is a conceptually elegant and eminently testable thesis for a comparative study.