National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963
Autor Richard Vinenen Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2015
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
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
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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
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