David French takes a new look at Britain's post-war defence policy by placing the army centre-stage. He sheds new light on this critical period by drawing from a range of primary sources never before consulted by historians, and explains why we should remember the forgotten post-war British army.
David French takes a new look at Britain's post-war defence policy by placing the army centre-stage. He sheds new light on this critical period by drawing from a range of primary sources never before consulted by historians, and explains why we should remember the forgotten post-war British army.
David French was at the University of York and the War Studies Department at King's College London. He spent 27 years at University College London before taking early retirement in 2008 to become a full-time writer. Professor French is the author of six previous books, and has been the recipient of the Arthur Goodzeit Prize of the New York Military Affairs Symposium. He is a three-time winner of the Templer Medal awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Strategic Studies, and the Council of the Army Records Society.
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Introduction 1: Policy-making and Police-makers 2: The New Model Army and the Cold War, 1945-1952 3: Service in the National Service Army 4: BAOR, MELF and Conventional Deterrence: 1948 to 1956 5: Counter-insurgency Operations, 1945 to 1956 6: 'Fire brigades'. Expeditionary Operations, 1945-1956 7: Duncan Sandys and the Creation of the All-Regular Army 8: 'A Good Employer'? The All-Regular Army 9: BAOR's Doctrine for Nuclear War 10: BAOR and the Nuclear Battlefield 11: 'Village Cricket': Expeditionary Operations, 1958-1966 12: The Army and the withdrawal from East of Suez Conclusion: a Potemkin Army Bibliography Index
Introduction 1: Policy-making and Police-makers 2: The New Model Army and the Cold War, 1945-1952 3: Service in the National Service Army 4: BAOR, MELF and Conventional Deterrence: 1948 to 1956 5: Counter-insurgency Operations, 1945 to 1956 6: 'Fire brigades'. Expeditionary Operations, 1945-1956 7: Duncan Sandys and the Creation of the All-Regular Army 8: 'A Good Employer'? The All-Regular Army 9: BAOR's Doctrine for Nuclear War 10: BAOR and the Nuclear Battlefield 11: 'Village Cricket': Expeditionary Operations, 1958-1966 12: The Army and the withdrawal from East of Suez Conclusion: a Potemkin Army Bibliography Index
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