Author: ALLPORT, ALAN
Title: Demobbed : coming home after the Second World War
Description: New Haven. Conn. ; London : Yale University Press 2009. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 265 pages; Physical description: x. 265 p.[16] p. Of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Summary: This work is the real story of what happened when millions of ex-servicement returned home. Allport draws on their personal letters and diaries. on newspapers. reports. novels and films to illuminate the darker side of the homecoming experience for ex-servicemen. their families and society at large. Review: 'Allport's wonderfully insightful study asks us to rethink the conventional chronology. It is not only refreshingly free of jargon but remarkably moving. If all academic history were written this way. popular historians would be out of a job.' Dominic Sandbrook. Sunday Times. Subjects: Great Britain - Armed forces - Demobilization - Psychological aspects. World War. 1939-1945 - Veterans - Great Britain - Social conditions.Weight in Kg appr.:

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