National Service : A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963 Paperback / softback
by Richard Vinen
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:640 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:02/07/2015
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- ISBN:9780141399805
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:640 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:02/07/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141399805