David French

Military Identities

The Regimental System, the British Army, and the British People C.1870-2000

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The regimental system has been the foundation of the British army for three hundred years, but has been repeatedly reinvented to suit the changing roles that were forced upon the army. Based upon extensive primary research, this is the first book to strip away the myths that have been deliberately manufactured to justify or to condemn the system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 629g
• ISBN-13: 9780199541058
• ISBN-10: 0199541051
• Artikelnr.: 24766019

Autorenporträt

David French

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Cardwell-Childers Reforms and the Re-creation of the Regimental System
2: Recruiting for the Regiments
3: Basic Training
4: The Construction of the Idea of 'the Regiment'
5: Barrack Life
6: The Leadership of the Regimental system: Officers and NCOs
7: Deviancy and Discipline in the Regimental System
8: The Auxiliary Regiments
9: Civilians and their Regiments
10: The Regimental System and the Battlefield
11: The Creation of the Post-Modern Regimental System, c.1945-1970
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

...an excellent book... Military Identities doubtless will be essential reading for scholars of the modern British army for decades to come. S.P. MacKenzie, Twentieth-Century British History