Fighting the people's war : the British and Commonwealth armies and the Second World War
Fennell, Jonathan, 1979-2019
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'Fighting the People's War' is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second World War. Drawing on new sources to reveal the true wartime experience of the ordinary rank and file, Jonathan Fennell fundamentally challenges our understanding of the War and of the relationship between conflict and socio-political change. He uncovers how fractures on the home front had profound implications for the performance of the British and Commonwealth armies and he traces how soldiers' political beliefs, many of which emerged as a consequence of their combat experience, proved instrumental to the socio-political changes of the postwar era.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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xxxii, 932 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Specialized.
ISBN:
9781107030954 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5'41241940.541241
Language:
English
Subject:
Great Britain. Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945Commonwealth countries -- Armed Forces -- History -- 20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945 -- CampaignsSoldiers -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centurySoldiers -- Commonwealth countries -- History -- 20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspectsSocial change -- History -- 20th century
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2768459
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