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Decision by Default - Peacetime Conscription and British Defence 1919-39 (Hardcover)
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Decision by Default - Peacetime Conscription and British Defence 1919-39 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security
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Britain's vast losses of men in the first world war produced a
revulsion against conscription. Originally published in 1972, Peter
Dennis here describes how conscription was introduced once more in
1939, when pressure from within Britain and from France forced the
British Government to reverse its position. With the use of
original sources, Peter Dennis explores the development of British
military policy between the wars, from the period of readjustment
and realignment immediately after the first world war, up to the
breakdown of the Chamberlain government's pledge not to introduce
conscription in peacetime. He points out that the politicians and
the public were not afraid of conscription itself, but of
conscription in peacetime as the forerunner of continental military
adventures in alliance with France. He shows how the battles over
conscription had a marked effect on the indecision of military
thinking, and how, in 1939, conscription finally became the crucial
issue in Britain's preparation for war.
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