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Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two
Alan Allport
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Description for Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two
Paperback. Snapshots of gaiety and celebration are how some people today think of Britain in 1945. This book tells the real story of what happened when millions of ex-servicemen returned home. It draws on their personal letters and diaries to illuminate the darker side of the homecoming experience for ex-servicemen, their families and society at large. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b&w plate section. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 330.
The trials, troubles and triumphs of returning home after the end of World War Two.
What happened when millions of British servicemen were “demobbed”—demobilized—after World War II? Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded with ambivalence, regrets, and fears. Returning soldiers faced both practical and psychological problems, from reasserting their place in the family home to rejoining a much-altered labor force. Civilians worried that their homecoming heroes had been barbarized by their experiences and would bring crime and violence back from the battlefield. Drawing on personal letters and diaries, newspapers, reports, ... Read more
The trials, troubles and triumphs of returning home after the end of World War Two.
What happened when millions of British servicemen were “demobbed”—demobilized—after World War II? Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded with ambivalence, regrets, and fears. Returning soldiers faced both practical and psychological problems, from reasserting their place in the family home to rejoining a much-altered labor force. Civilians worried that their homecoming heroes had been barbarized by their experiences and would bring crime and violence back from the battlefield. Drawing on personal letters and diaries, newspapers, reports, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
329g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300168860
SKU
V9780300168860
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Ref
99-28
About Alan Allport
Alan Allport is a postdoctoral lecturer at Princeton University. He lives in Princeton, NJ.
Reviews for Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two
"'A highly impressive debut, demonstrating great scholarship and an ability to balance the humane detail of fractured lives with a wider perspective of the political and social context... certainly the most insightful text on the 1940s to have appeared this year.' Ian Cawood, Times Literary Supplement 'Allport's wonderfully insightful study asks us to rethink the conventional chronology... It is not ... Read more