The Labour governments of 1945-51 are among the most important and controversial in modern British history, and have been the focus of extensive research over the last fifteen years. In this study,...
This is a 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.
This is the only detailed and comprehensive account of the policies, programs, and personalities of the powerful and influential Attlee government. Based on a vast range of previously unpublished...