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National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963
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Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History PrizeSunday Times Top 10 BestsellerRichard Vinen’s National Service is 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.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.46 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.8 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Pages | 640 |
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| Year Published | 2015-7-2 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0141399805 |
| About The Author | Richard Vinen is the author of the highly praised A History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century, The Unfree French: Life under the Occupation (published by Penguin) and Thatcher's Britain. He is Professor of History at King's College London. |
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 |
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| Other text | Written with compassion and insight, Vinen's book brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of postwar Britain |
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