Browned off and bloody-minded :: the British soldier goes to war, 1939-1945 /

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 socia...

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1. Verfasser: Allport, Alan, 1970-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780300213126
0300213123
0300170750
9780300170757

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