Decision by Default (Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security) - Hardcover

Dennis, Peter

 
9780367635442: Decision by Default (Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security)
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ISBN 10: 0367635445 ISBN 13: 9780367635442
Verlag: Routledge, 2021

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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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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0367635445
ISBN 13 
9780367635442
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
258
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ISBN 10:  0710072635 ISBN 13:  9780710072634
Verlag: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1972
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