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National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963
Richard Vinen
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Description for National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963
Paperback. Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History Prize, this book attempt to get to grips with the reality of that extraordinary institution, which now seems as remote as the British Empire itself. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBWS; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 200 x 34. Weight in Grams: 472.
Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History Prize
Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller
Richard Vinen's National Service is a serious - if often very entertaining - attempt to get to grips with the reality of that extraordinary institution, which now seems as remote as the British Empire itself. With great sympathy and curiosity, Vinen unpicks the myths of the two 'gap years', which all British men who came of age between 1945 and the early 1960s had to fill with National Service.
This book is fascinating to those who endured or even enjoyed their ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141399805
SKU
V9780141399805
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99-99
About Richard Vinen
Richard Vinen is the author of the highly praised A History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century, The Unfree French: Life under the Occupation (published by Penguin) and Thatcher's Britain. He is Professor of History at King's College London.
Reviews for National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963
Vinen's clever and careful book is surely the definitive history. The era of national service now seems like ancient history, but from the routines of the parade ground to the horrors of Korea, Vinen restores it to life with a searching eye for detail and impressive human sympathy
Dominic Sandbrook
Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR
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Dominic Sandbrook
Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR
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