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Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945
Alan Allport
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Description for Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945
Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, 22 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300226386
SKU
V9780300226386
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Ref
99-35
Reviews for Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945
This rich social history offers a moving insight into the wartime experiences of these extraordinary men. -Mail on Sunday
Mail on Sunday
A marvellous book, well-written and very readable. Highly Recommended. -Harold Pollins, Bulletin of the Military Historical Society, February 2017.
Harold Pollins
Bulletin of the Military Historical Society
Mail on Sunday
A marvellous book, well-written and very readable. Highly Recommended. -Harold Pollins, Bulletin of the Military Historical Society, February 2017.
Harold Pollins
Bulletin of the Military Historical Society