The British Army And The People S War 1939 1945

Author : Jeremy A. Crang
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0719047412

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The British Army and the People's War, 1939-1945 by Jeremy A. Crang Pdf

During the Second World War the British army absorbed approximately three million new recruits, the majority of whom were conscripts. Drawn from all occupational groups and social classes, the military authorities were confronted with the task of molding these civilians in uniform into an effective fighting force. This book analyzes the impact of this process of integration on the army as a social institution. Exploring such aspects of the army’s social organization as other rank selection, officer selection, officer promotion, officer-man relations, the soldier’s working life, army welfare, and army education, it assesses the ways in which the army changed in relation to its new intake, what the extent of any change that took place actually was, and how different the army of 1945 was to that of 1939.

Author : Angus Calder
Publisher : Random House
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448103102

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The People's War by Angus Calder Pdf

The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. In this comprehensive and engrossing narrative Angus Calder presents not only the great events and leading figures but also the oddities and banalities of daily life on the Home Front, and in particular the parts played by ordinary people: air raid wardens and Home Guards, factory workers and farmers, housewives and pacifists. Above all this revisionist and important work reveals how, in those six years, the British people came closer to discarding their social conventions than at any time since Cromwell's republic. Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys prize in 1970, The People’s War draws on oral testimony and a mass of neglected social documentation to question the popularised image of national unity in the fight for victory.

Author : Neil Rattigan
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0838638627

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This is England by Neil Rattigan Pdf

Third, that the condition of total war in which Britain found itself a short time after the commencement of hostilities would mean that films, and indeed, all mass/popular culture, would respond to the urgency of the situation by taking a special interest in representations of British society. And fourth, following on from this, that British films of the Second World War would, one way or another, be agents of propaganda. From these propositions, the book examines just what these films had to say about social class in the images of Britain they were promulgating, with the corollaries of just how were they saying it, and why were they saying it. Alongside this is a concern with what propaganda purposes were being met by these films."--Jacket.

Author : Jonathan Fennell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107030954

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Fighting the People's War by Jonathan Fennell Pdf

Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.

Author : Jeremy A. Crang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107013476

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Sisters in Arms by Jeremy A. Crang Pdf

Jeremy Crang provides a compelling new history of women who served with the British armed forces during the Second World War.

Author : Tom Wintringham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : IND:32000011279652

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Peoples' War by Tom Wintringham Pdf

Author : Kiri Bloom Walden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784423520

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Entertaining the Troops by Kiri Bloom Walden Pdf

This book explores the foundation and work of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) and other entertainment organisations such as CEMA and Stars in Battledress. These organisations ensured that troops in all theatres of the Second World War were visited by big bands, ballet stars, Shakespearian actors and the most famous popular entertainers of the day in order to raise morale. Many of Britain's biggest stars cut their teeth performing on makeshift stages to homesick soldiers, sailors and airmen and women during the war years, with famous performers including Laurence Olivier, Gracie Fields, George Formby, Vera Lynn, Margot Fonteyn and members of The Goons. This book also details the alternative arrangements made when the entertainment organisations couldn't come – the forces often put on their own shows, with pantomimes and plays written and performed by POWs being a prime example.

Author : George Forty
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0750931906

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British Army Handbook 1939-1945 by George Forty Pdf

To encapsulate the British Army in one book is no easy task, but here, George Forty presents it as it was during the Second World War. When war was declared in 1939, the British Army was very much the 'Cinderella' of the three armed services with a total strength of around 865,000 men. However, just four years later when the Allies invaded North West Europe, the British Army had grown into a powerful, well-organized and well-equipped fighting force of three million men and women. George Forty here presents a comprehensive overview of the British Army during this important time. It has full details of mobilization and training, higher organization and arms of the service; divisional organizations and non-divisional units; HQs and Staff; the combat arms and the services; the individual soldier, his weapons and equipment based on that used in 1944; tactics; weapons, vehicles and equipment; vehicle markings and camouflage; the ATS and other Women's Corps. Fully illustrated with an unusual collection of photographs and line illustrations, this is an indispensable reference guide for anyone interested in this fascinating period of British history.

Author : R. Scott Sheffield,Noah Riseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424639

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Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War by R. Scott Sheffield,Noah Riseman Pdf

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

Author : Peter Lewis
Publisher : London : Thames Methuen
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011694760

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A People's War by Peter Lewis Pdf

Author : Juliet Gardiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1855850729

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The People's War by Juliet Gardiner Pdf

Author : Mark Connelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060847459

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We Can Take It! by Mark Connelly Pdf

We Can Take It explores how the memory of the Second World War continues to affect British contemporary life and why the war effort holds an important place in British culture, history and national identity. Connelly explores the way in which the British memory of the Second World War was created during the war, and maintained after it through cultural artifacts such as films, comics, art, literature and toys. Connelly moves away from recent interpretations of the British war effort which have suggested that the rosy vision of cohesion, solidarity and unity is little more than a myth. Britain's role in the war is seen as something that we should be proud of, and need to come to terms with in order to eradicate problems in our national self-perception.

Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317318040

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Stress in Post-War Britain by Mark Jackson Pdf

In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.

Author : Alexander Wilson,Richard Hammond,Jonathan Fennell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228015901

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The Peoples’ War? by Alexander Wilson,Richard Hammond,Jonathan Fennell Pdf

Some 60 million people died during the Second World War; millions more were displaced in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The war resulted in the creation of new states, the acceleration of imperial decline, and a shift in the distribution of global power. Despite its unprecedented impact, a comprehensive account of the complex international experiences of this war remains elusive. The Peoples’ War? offers fresh approaches to the challenge of writing a new history of the Second World War. Exploring aspects of the war that have been marginalized in military and political studies, the volume foregrounds less familiar narratives, subjects, and places. Chapters recover the wartime experiences of individuals – including women, children, members of minority ethnic groups, and colonial subjects – whose stories do not fit easily into conventional national war narratives. The contributors show how terms used to delineate the conflict such as home front and battle front, occupier and occupied, captor and prisoner, and friend and foe became increasingly blurred as the war wore on. Above all, the volume encourages reflection on whether this conflict really was a “Peoples’ War.” Challenging the homogenizing narratives of the war as a nationally unifying experience, The Peoples’ War? seeks to enrich our understanding of the Second World War as a global event.

Author : Douglas E. Delaney
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774820929

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Corps Commanders by Douglas E. Delaney Pdf

Corps Commanders examines how five strikingly dissimilar British and Canadian generals fought battles and fit into the British Empire armies of the Second World War. The three Canadians controlled British formations and served under British army commanders, and the two Britons worked for and led Canadians as well. Such inter-army adjustments were fairly simple because all Anglo-Canadian commanders and staffs spoke the military language of the Camberley and Quetta staff colleges. Gunners from Montreal understood guardsmen from London – no small advantage when coordinating coalition battles involving thousands of troops. Delaney’s book offers invaluable insight into interoperability and how men animate armies in war.