Browned off and bloody-minded : the British soldier goes to war, 1939-1945

Browned off and bloody-minded : the British soldier goes to war, 1939-1945 / Alan Allport.

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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Main Author: Allport, Alan, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Army > History.
World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain.
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.'

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