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National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963

Autor Richard Vinen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2015
Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History Prize

Sunday TimesTop 10 Bestseller
Richard Vinen'sNational Serviceis a serious - if often very entertaining - attempt to get to grips with the reality of that extraordinary institution, which now seems as remote as the British Empire itself. With great sympathy and curiosity, Vinen unpicks the myths of the two 'gap years', which all British men who came of age between 1945 and the early 1960s had to fill with National Service.
This book is fascinating to those who endured or even enjoyed their time in uniform, but also to anyone wishing to understand the unique nature of post-war Britain.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141399805
ISBN-10: 0141399805
Pagini: 640
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Richard Vinen is the author of the highly praisedA History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century,The Unfree French: Life under the Occupation(published by Penguin) andThatcher's Britain. He is Professor of History at King's College London.

Recenzii

Vinen's clever and careful book is surely the definitive history. The era of national service now seems like ancient history, but from the routines of the parade ground to the horrors of Korea, Vinen restores it to life with a searching eye for detail and impressive human sympathy
Written with compassion and insight, Vinen's book brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of postwar Britain
National Servicemay prove to be the most original social history book of 2014. The book is bigger than its ostensible subject, embracing class, masculinity, sexuality, compliance, rebellion, combat atrocities, petty crime, notions of national identity, group solidarity, the fallibility of memory and what it means to be a man
Vinen has given us the kind of book that every professional historian surely wants to write: not only with a mastery of its voluminous original sources but also a sensitivity to the rich human detail, by turns authoritative, thoughtful, poignant - and funny
I can't recall ever having read so unexpectedly fascinating a book...every single page has something of great interest on it