British Civilians in the Front Line - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Civilians in the Front Line write by Helen Jones. This book was released on 2006-04-30. British Civilians in the Front Line available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "By drawing on a range of sources, including secret government documents, newspapers, national and local records, feature films, as well as interviews with those who worked during air raids, this book provides an analysis of private meanings and public media representations of civilians 'in the front line'. It will be enjoyed by historians of the Second World War and those seeking to understand better ways in which civilians have experienced war in the twentieth century."--Jacket.
Front Line, 1940-41
Front Line, 1940-41 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Front Line, 1940-41 write by Great Britain. Ministry of Home Security. This book was released on 1942. Front Line, 1940-41 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
British Civilians in the Front Line
British Civilians in the Front Line - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Civilians in the Front Line write by Helen Jones. This book was released on 2006. British Civilians in the Front Line available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first full-length study of the behaviour of British civilians and their reactions to air raids during the Second World War. It unravels the multiple day-to-day, concrete and local influences on people's behaviour at these times of great danger, risk and uncertainty, and challenges the traditional image of civilians as passive shelterers under attack. It uncovers Churchill and his government's desperate attempts to persuade key workers to continue with their work once the air raid siren had sounded, and reveals the complex reasons why so many workers were willing to run such risks. By drawing on a range of sources, including secret government documents, newspapers, national and local records, feature films, as well as interviews with those who worked during air raids, this book provides a fascinating analysis of private meanings and public media representations of civilians 'in the front line'.
Browned Off and Bloody-Minded
Browned Off and Bloody-Minded - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Browned Off and Bloody-Minded write by Alan Allport. This book was released on 2015-03-01. Browned Off and Bloody-Minded available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport’s rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.
Borrowed Soldiers
Borrowed Soldiers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Borrowed Soldiers write by Mitchell A. Yockelson. This book was released on 2016-01-18. Borrowed Soldiers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years before D-Day. He follows the two divisions that constituted II Corps, the 27th and 30th, from the training camps of South Carolina to the bloody battlefields of Europe. Despite cultural differences, General Pershing’s misgivings, and the contrast between American eagerness and British exhaustion, the untested Yanks benefited from the experience of battle-toughened Tommies. Their combined forces contributed much to the Allied victory. Yockelson plumbs new archival sources, including letters and diaries of American, Australian, and British soldiers to examine how two forces of differing organization and attitude merged command relationships and operations. Emphasizing tactical cooperation and training, he details II Corps’ performance in Flanders during the Ypres-Lys offensive, the assault on the Hindenburg Line, and the decisive battle of the Selle. Featuring thirty-nine evocative photographs and nine maps, this account shows how the British and American military relationship evolved both strategically and politically. A case study of coalition warfare, Borrowed Soldiers adds significantly to our understanding of the Great War.
