The Conscription Controversy in Great Britain, 1900–18
Author: R.J.Q. Adams
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1987-06-18
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1349087874
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The Conscription Controversy in Great Britain, 1900-18
Author: Ralph James Q. Adams
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritain and World War One
Author: Alan G. V. Simmonds
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1136629971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe First World War appears as a fault line in Britain’s twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more people, more money and more resources than any other conflict Britain had hitherto experienced. For the first time, it opened up a Home Front that stretched into all parts of the British polity, society and culture, touching the lives of every citizen regardless of age, gender and class. Even vegetables were grown in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Britain and World War One throws attention on these civilians who fought the war on the Home Front. Harnessing recent scholarship, and drawing on original documents, oral testimony and historical texts, this book casts a fresh look over different aspects of British society during the four long years of war. It revisits the early war enthusiasm and the making of Kitchener’s new armies; the emotive debates over conscription; the relationships between politics, government and popular opinion; women working in wartime industries; the popular experience of war and the question of social change. The book also explores areas of wartime Britain overlooked by recent histories, including the impact of the war on rural society; the mobilization of industry, and the importance of technology, as well as exploring responses to air raids, food and housing shortages; the challenges to traditional social and sexual mores and wartime culture. Britain and World War One is an essential book for all students and interested lay readers of the First World War.
Militarism and the British Left, 1902-1914
Author: M. Johnson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1137274131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMilitarism has traditionally been regarded as a phenomenon of the political right. As this book demonstrates, however, various groups on the political left in Britain during the years before the Great War were able to accommodate, and even assimilate, militaristic ideas, sentiments, and policies to a remarkable degree.
Conscripts
Author: Ilana R Bet-El
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2009-05-29
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0752499939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on diaries, letters and personal accounts from British conscripts who served on the Western Front in the latter half of the Great War, this is the first book to explore the contribution they made to the war effect. By the end of the war more than 2.5 million men had been conscripted, but their memory has not lived on; they are the lost legions of the First World War. Here, at last, their story is told: the story of ordinary men, from manual workers to clerks and solicitors, who became soldiers, fought and - for those who survived - went home. In this groundbreaking work, Ilana Bet-El explains their absence from the imagery of the war. She reconstructs the daily life of soldiers on the Western Front as we are told, in the conscripts' own words, of the grim reality of dirt and lice and hunger, the mysteries of army pay and military discipline, and the joys of leave and cigarettes. It is a compelling journey back in time, which restores these men to the public image of the Great War by rediscovering the 'forgotten memory' of Britain's conscript army.
Military Service Tribunals and Boards in the Great War
Author: David Littlewood
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1315464470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile a plethora of studies have discussed why so many men decided to volunteer for the army during the Great War, the experiences of those who were called up under conscription have received relatively little scrutiny. Even when the implementation of the respective Military Service Acts has been investigated, scholars have usually focused on only the distinct minority of those eligible who expressed conscientious objections. It is rare to see equal significance placed on the fact that substantial numbers of men appealed, or were appealed for, on the grounds that their domestic, business, or occupational circumstances meant they should not be expected to serve. David Littlewood analyses the processes undergone by these men, and the workings of the bodies charged with assessing their cases, through a sustained transnational comparison of the British and New Zealand contexts.
War Planning 1914
Author: Richard F. Hamilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0521110963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting.
Prisoners of Britain
Author: Panikos Panayi
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018-02-28
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1526130556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the First World War hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, almost a century after the conflict. The book covers the three different types of internees in Britain in the form of: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants. Using a vast range of contemporary British and German sources the volume traces life experiences through initial arrest and capture to life behind barbed wire to return to Germany or to the remnants of the ethnically cleansed German community in Britain. The book will prove essential reading for anyone interested in the history of prisoners of war or the First World War and will also appeal to scholars and students of twentieth-century Europe and the human consequences of war.
Lloyd George
Author: Ian Packer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1998-10-30
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1349269980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most charismatic and controversial of British politicians, David Lloyd George had a profound impact on the country; as a Welsh radical, as an Edwardian social reformer and as 'the man who won the war'. Lloyd George was centrally involved in all the major national issues of the early twentieth century, and in the aftermath of World War I he played a crucial role at the Versailles peace conference and on the world scene of the early 1920s. His life is fascinating in itself and highly valuable as a means to understanding a crucial era in British history. Students hoping to understand the politics of the period that decisively ushered in the British experience of the welfare state, and, through the emergencies provoked by the Great War, a new and highly obtrusive role for government, will find Dr. Packer's book an invaluable aid.
The British Army, Manpower and Society into the Twenty-first Century
Author: Hew Strachan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-06-30
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1135302057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays set the relationship between the Army and society in the context of the 20th century as a whole. They then consider the key areas of current controversy - the pressure on the Army caused by changes in society, the Army's "right to be different", race, homosexuality and gender.
