Conscription and the Attlee governments the politics and policy of national service, 1945-1951

This is a study of the years immediately following World War II, when for the first time in Britain peacetime conscription was practised. The author examines the military thinking behind conscription, showing how the 1947 National Service Act was regarded by the military as deficient and expensive

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, L. V.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 1993, 1993
Series:Oxford historical monographs / Oxford historical monographs
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