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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allport, Alan, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Great Britain. > Army > History.
Grande-Bretagne. > Army > Histoire.
Great Britain. > Army
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Grande-Bretagne.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: Regulars
  • 1. Colonel Lawrence and Colonel Blimp
  • 2. Gentlemen and Old Sweats
  • Part 2: Civvies
  • 4. Army of Shopkeepers
  • 5. Britain Blancoes while Russia Bleeds
  • 6. Get Some Service In
  • Part 3: Crusaders
  • 7. Into the Blue
  • 8. Come to Sunny Italy
  • 9. Fighting Bloody Nature
  • 10. Second Front
  • 11. Teeth and Tail
  • 12. The Grammar of War
  • 13. Categories of Courage
  • Part 5: Citizens
  • 14. Them and Us
  • 15. 'What a Colossal Waste of Time War Is.'

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