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. Alan Allp...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2015
New Haven : [2015] New Haven, CT : [2015] |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.'
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Introduction
- PART ONE :REGULARS
- CHAPTER 1. COLONEL LAWRENCE AND COLONEL BLIMP
- CHAPTER 2. GENTLEMEN AND OLD SWEATS
- CHAPTER 3. STRANGE DEFEAT
- PART TWO :CIVVIES
- CHAPTER 4. ARMY OF SHOPKEEPERS
- CHAPTER 5. BRITAIN BLANCOES WHILE RUSSIA BLEEDS
- CHAPTER 6. GET SOME SERVICE IN
- PART THREE :CRUSADERS
- CHAPTER 7. INTO THE BLUE
- CHAPTER 8. COME TO SUNNY ITALY
- CHAPTER 9. FIGHTING BLOODY NATURE
- CHAPTER 10. SECOND FRONT
- PART FOUR: KILLERS
- CHAPTER 11. TEETH AND TAIL
- CHAPTER 12. THE GRAMMAR OF WAR
- CHAPTER 13. CATEGORIES OF COURAGE
- PART FIVE: CITIZENS
- CHAPTER 14 .THEM AND US
- CHAPTER 15. 'WHAT A COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME WAR IS'
- APPENDIX
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX