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Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

byHelen Parr

Helen Parr uses Our Boys to investigate the Story of a Paratrooper through a carefully framed historical account. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the wider field of history. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning. The emphasis stays on explanation, context, and the lived consequences behind the larger argument.

Publisher

Allen Lane

Publication date

2021-09-14

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ISBN

9780241288948