National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963

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 had to fill with National Service. This book is fascinating to those who endured or even enjoyed their time in uniform, but also to anyone wishing to understand the unique nature of post-war Britain.

Author: Richard Vinen
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 07/02/2015
Pages: 640
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780141399805

About the Author
Richard Vinen is the author of the highly praised A History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century, The Unfree French: Life under the Occupation, and Thatcher's Britain. He is Professor of History at King's College London.

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