Browned Off and Bloody-Minded by Alan Allport

Browned Off and Bloody-Minded by Alan Allport

More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport's rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.

“A marvellous book, well-written and very readableHighly Recommended.”—Harold Pollins, Bulletin of the Military Historical Society, February 2017.
  -- Harold Pollins * Bulletin of the Military Historical Society *

“This rich social history offers a moving insight into the wartime experiences of these extraordinary men.”
—Mail on Sunday

* Mail on Sunday *

ALAN ALLPORT is a British-born historian, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, who specializes in the British role in the Second World War. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently an associate professor of history in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is the author of Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War (2010), which won the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award, and Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 (2015). He has also written for several publications, including, The Wall Street Journal, The Times (London), The Literary Review, and the London Review of Books. He lives in Syracuse, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780300226386
ISBN 10	0300226381
Title	Browned Off and Bloody-Minded
Author	Alan Allport
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	2017-03-07
Number of pages	424
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