Description
Product ID: | 9780300168860 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Demobbed |
Subtitle: | Coming Home After World War Two |
Authors: | Author: Alan Allport |
Page Count: | 280 |
Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, History, Social and cultural history, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Social & cultural history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Snapshots of gaiety and celebration are how some people today think of Britain in 1945. This book tells the real story of what happened when millions of ex-servicemen returned home. It draws on their personal letters and diaries to illuminate the darker side of the homecoming experience for ex-servicemen, their families and society at large. |
Imprint Name: | Yale University Press |
Publisher Name: | Yale University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2010-10-15 |