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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This work is the real story of what happened when millions of ex-servicement returned home. Allport draws on their personal letters and diaries, on newspapers, reports, novels and films to illuminate the darker side of the homecoming experience for ex-servicemen, their families and society at large.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
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 social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were...
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