W. J. Reader

'At Duty's Call'

A study in obsolete patriotism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Reader attempts to understand the extraordinary mass voluntary enlistment of two and a half million men in the British army in the first sixteenth months of the Great War

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 257g
• ISBN-13: 9780719097539
• ISBN-10: 0719097533
• Artikelnr.: 42965647

Autorenporträt

W. J. Reader was a freelance historian associated with the Business History Unit at the London School of Economics

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. 'Their name liveth for evermore' 2. On war: Clausewitz, Darwin,
Henty and others 3. The British Empire: 'Dominion over palm and pine' 4.
Germany rising 5. The temples of the faith: 'the best school of all' 6.
Voluntary enlistment 1914-15: 'Your country needs YOU!' 7. 'The old
lie...?' Bibliography Index