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Volunteers and Pressed Men: How Britain and its Empire Raised its Forces in Two World Wars
Roger Broad
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Hardcover. The heroic myth of 20th century British history is that after the fall of France in June 1940 Britain 'stood alone'. This ignores the millions of men and women from around the world who, largely voluntarily, rallied to the British cause. As in 1914-18 Britain in 1939-45 could call on the human and material resources of the world's greatest empire. Num Pages: 224 pages, 24 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; 3JJH; HBWN; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 510.
The great heroic myth of 20th century British history is that after the fall of France in June 1940 Britain stood alone . This does a great disservice to the millions of men and women from around the world who rallied to the British cause. As in 1914-18 Britain in 1939-45 could call on the human and material resources of the world s greatest empire, and without them could not have held off Germany and Italy, and later Japan. In the First World War Britain initially depended on volunteers to form Kitchener s New Army, but from 1916 it had ... Read more
The great heroic myth of 20th century British history is that after the fall of France in June 1940 Britain stood alone . This does a great disservice to the millions of men and women from around the world who rallied to the British cause. As in 1914-18 Britain in 1939-45 could call on the human and material resources of the world s greatest empire, and without them could not have held off Germany and Italy, and later Japan. In the First World War Britain initially depended on volunteers to form Kitchener s New Army, but from 1916 it had ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781553961
SKU
V9781781553961
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99-50
About Roger Broad
Roger Broad is the author of Conscription in Britain 1939-64 (2006) and of The Radical General: Sir Ronald Adam and Britain's New Model Army 1941-46 (2013). After military service he graduated in Modern History at the Queen's College, Oxford, and became a journalist for British and foreign media. For 22 years he was an official of the European Union; from ... Read more
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