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National Service - From Aldershot to Aden: tales from the conscripts, 1946-62 (Paperback)
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National Service - From Aldershot to Aden: tales from the conscripts, 1946-62 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R295
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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. Historian Dr Colin Shindler has interviewed a wide range of
ex-conscripts, from all backgrounds, across all ranks, and spanning
the entire fourteen years that peacetime conscription lasted, 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. Through these
conversations we learn as much about the changing attitudes of
servicemen as war became more of a distant memory as we do about
the varied nature of their experiences. We see, too, the changing
face of British society across these pivotal years, which span
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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