Author: NORTHERN RHODESIA AND THE BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE. RAILWAY COMMISSION OF SOUTHERN RHODESIA
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Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Annual Report ... for the Year Ended 30th September, 1930 ( -1937).
Annual Report
Author: Great Britain. Transport Tribunal
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Military Identities
Author: David French
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191531561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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The regimental system has been the foundation of the British army for three hundred years. This iconoclastic study shows how it was refashioned in the late nineteenth century, and how it was subsequently and repeatedly reinvented to suit the changing roles that were forced upon the army. Based upon a combination of official papers, private papers and personal reminiscences, and upon research in the National Archives, regimental museums and collections, and other depositories, this book challenges the assumptions of both the exponents and detractors of the system. The author, David French, shows that there was not one, but several, regimental systems and he demonstrates that localised recruiting was usually a failure. Many regiments were never able to draw more than a small proportion of their recruits from their own districts. He shows that regimental loyalties were not a primordial force; regimental authorities had to create them and in the late nineteenth century they manufactured new traditions with gusto, whilst in both World Wars regimental postings quickly broke down and regiments had to take recruits from wherever they could find them. French also argues that the notion that the British army was bad at fighting big battles because the regimental system created a parochial military culture is facile. This is the first book to strip away the myths that have been deliberately manufactured to justify or to condemn the regimental system and to uncover the reality beneath them. It thus illuminates our understanding of the past while simultaneously throwing glaring new light on the still continuing debate over the place of the regimental system in the modern army today.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191531561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The regimental system has been the foundation of the British army for three hundred years. This iconoclastic study shows how it was refashioned in the late nineteenth century, and how it was subsequently and repeatedly reinvented to suit the changing roles that were forced upon the army. Based upon a combination of official papers, private papers and personal reminiscences, and upon research in the National Archives, regimental museums and collections, and other depositories, this book challenges the assumptions of both the exponents and detractors of the system. The author, David French, shows that there was not one, but several, regimental systems and he demonstrates that localised recruiting was usually a failure. Many regiments were never able to draw more than a small proportion of their recruits from their own districts. He shows that regimental loyalties were not a primordial force; regimental authorities had to create them and in the late nineteenth century they manufactured new traditions with gusto, whilst in both World Wars regimental postings quickly broke down and regiments had to take recruits from wherever they could find them. French also argues that the notion that the British army was bad at fighting big battles because the regimental system created a parochial military culture is facile. This is the first book to strip away the myths that have been deliberately manufactured to justify or to condemn the regimental system and to uncover the reality beneath them. It thus illuminates our understanding of the past while simultaneously throwing glaring new light on the still continuing debate over the place of the regimental system in the modern army today.
Report and Balance Sheet for the Year Ending September 30th 1937 [etc.].
Author: English School (CAIRO)
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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Annual Report
Author: Queensland. Public Service Commissioner
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Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Languages : en
Pages : 1960
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1960
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State Periodical Publications on Financial Statistics of Local Governments
Author: Wylie Kilpatrick
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1941
Author: United States. Congress. House. Appropriations
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Languages : en
Pages : 1992
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Languages : en
Pages : 1992
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Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1941
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1968
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Publisher:
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1968
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