Conscription and the Attlee Governments: The Politics and Policy of National Service 1945-1951

by Len Scott

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In the years immediately following the Second World War, Britain peacetime conscription was practiced for the first time. L.V. Scott examines the military thinking regarding conscription, showing how the 1947 National Service Act came to be regarded by the military as deficient and expensive. The demands of conscription retarded the development of an efficient post-war regular army. Scott explores the policies of both Labour and Conservative parties,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198204213

ISBN13:9780198204213

Release Date:December 1993

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:314 Pages

Weight:1.22 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Engineering History Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Technology

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