Author: Alan Allport
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300213123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport’s rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.
Browned Off and Bloody-Minded
Author: Alan Allport
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300213123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport’s rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300213123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport’s rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.
Browned Off and Bloody-minded
Author: Alan Allport
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300170750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport's rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300170750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport's rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.
Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief
Author: Clive Emsley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199653712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The first serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after the two world wars of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199653712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The first serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after the two world wars of the twentieth century.
Nigeria and World War II
Author: Chima J. Korieh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
Fighting the People's War
Author: Jonathan Fennell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 967
Book Description
Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 967
Book Description
Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.
Canadian Soldier in World War II
Author: Jean Bouchery
Publisher: Histoire & Collections
ISBN: 9782352500285
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 2000, Histoire & Collections released two books by Jean Bouchery on the British Soldier in World War 2. Both books have been enormously successful. This new book, in the same format, will appeal in the same way as its predecessors. There is an unprecedented amount of color artwork depicting uniforms, variants, insignia, badges and equipment used by Canada's soldiers in the Second World War.
Publisher: Histoire & Collections
ISBN: 9782352500285
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 2000, Histoire & Collections released two books by Jean Bouchery on the British Soldier in World War 2. Both books have been enormously successful. This new book, in the same format, will appeal in the same way as its predecessors. There is an unprecedented amount of color artwork depicting uniforms, variants, insignia, badges and equipment used by Canada's soldiers in the Second World War.
Sheer Misery
Author: Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022675314X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The senses -- The dirty body -- The foot -- The wound -- The corpse.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022675314X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The senses -- The dirty body -- The foot -- The wound -- The corpse.
India at War
Author: Yasmin Khan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199753490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
"First published in Great Britain in 2015 as The Raj at War by The Bodley Head"--Title page verso.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199753490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
"First published in Great Britain in 2015 as The Raj at War by The Bodley Head"--Title page verso.
History of the Second World War
Author: B. H. Liddell Hart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780848830021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780848830021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Soldiers of Empire
Author: Tarak Barkawi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107169585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107169585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.