Browned off and bloody-minded : the British soldier goes to war, 1939-1945
Allport, Alan, 1970-2015
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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. This 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.
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Author:
Allport, Alan, 1970-, author
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.
Collation:
336 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780300170757 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.541241950.548341
Language:
English
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BRN:
1685249