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In this book, Reader attempts to understand the extraordinary mass voluntary enlistment of two and a half million men in the British army in the first sixteenth months of the Great War -- .

Table of Contents

Foreword
1. ‘Their name liveth for evermore’
2. On war: Clausewitz, Darwin, Henty and others
3. The British Empire: ‘Dominion over palm and pine’
4. Germany rising
5. The temples of the faith: ‘the best school of all’
6. Voluntary enlistment 1914-15: ‘Your country needs YOU!’
7. ‘The old lie…?’
Bibliography
Index

At Dutys Call

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 8/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719097539, 978-0719097539
      ISBN10: 0719097533

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this book, Reader attempts to understand the extraordinary mass voluntary enlistment of two and a half million men in the British army in the first sixteenth months of the Great War -- .

      Table of Contents

      Foreword
      1. ‘Their name liveth for evermore’
      2. On war: Clausewitz, Darwin, Henty and others
      3. The British Empire: ‘Dominion over palm and pine’
      4. Germany rising
      5. The temples of the faith: ‘the best school of all’
      6. Voluntary enlistment 1914-15: ‘Your country needs YOU!’
      7. ‘The old lie…?’
      Bibliography
      Index

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