Conscription and the Attlee Governments: The Politics and Policy of National Service 1945-1951 (Oxford Historical Monographs) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Conscription and the Attlee Governments: The Politics and Policy of National Service 1945-1951 (Oxford Historical Monographs) Book

Conscription and the Attlee Governments : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198204213 : 0198204213 : 02 Dec 1993 : This is the first detailed scholarly study of conscription in the years immediately following the Second World War, when for the first time in Britain peacetime conscription was practised. It is a valuable analysis of an important political question and of changing assumptions about British defence priorities in the pivotal post-war years.Read More

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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, tracing the process by which Labour, previously bitterly opposed to conscription, came to pass the 1947 Act. His book is a valuable analysis of an important political question and of changing assumptions about British defense priorities in the pivotal post-war years.

  • 0198204213
  • 9780198204213
  • L. V. Scott
  • 30 September 1993
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 320
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