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National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963

by Richard Vinen

Richard Vinen’s National Service is a serious—if often very entertaining—attempt to get to grips with the reality of that extraordinary institution, which now seems as remote as the British Empire itself. With great sympathy and curiosity, Vinen unpicks the myths of the two “gap years,” which all British men who came of age between 1945 and the early 1960s h

Publisher

Penguin

Publication date

Jul 02, 2015

Format

Print edition

Pages

640

ISBN

9780141399805