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National Service - from Aldershot to Aden: Tales from the Conscripts, 1946-62 (Hardcover)
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National Service - from Aldershot to Aden: Tales from the Conscripts, 1946-62 (Hardcover)
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Permission to speak, Sah! In the aftermath of the Second World War,
over two million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed
services. Some were sent abroad and watched their friends die in
combat. Others remained in barracks and painted coal white. But
despite delivering such varied experiences, National Service helped
to shape the outlook of an entire generation of young British
males. To mark the 50th anniversary of the end of National Service,
historian Dr Colin Shindler has interviewed ex-conscripts from all
backgrounds and ranks, spanning the entire period of peacetime
conscription, and captured their memories in this engrossing book.
From them, we experience the tension of a postwar Berlin surrounded
by Russians, the exotic heat and colour of Tripoli in 1948, the
brief but intense flashpoint of the Suez Crisis, and the fear of
the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. But we also hear about the other end
of the scale, the conscripts who didn't make it outside the
confines of their barracks, or in one case, beyond his home town.
In National Service we see the changing face of British society
across these pivotal years, which spans everything from the
coronation of Elizabeth II, to the birth of rock 'n' roll, to the
beginning of the end of the Empire. The stories within these pages
are fascinating. And they deserve to be told before they are lost
forever.
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