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An intriguing study of the revolutionary army as a powerful and yet contested symbol of nascent national identity among the American colonies.
National characteristics, American --- American national characteristics --- History --- Patriotism --- United States. --- Loyalty --- Allegiance --- Continental Army (U.S.) --- American Continental Army --- Revolutionary Army (U.S.) --- American Revolution. --- army life. --- civilians. --- military identity. --- national identity. --- revolutionary army.
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During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the largest single movement of African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of the African experience of the war. It is a 'history from below' that describes how men were recruited for a war about which most knew very little. Army life exposed them to a range of new and startling experiences: new foods and forms of discipline, uniforms, machines and rifles, notions of industrial time, travel overseas, new languages and cultures, numeracy and literacy.
What impact did service in the army have on African men and their families? What new skills did soldiers acquire and to what purposes were they put on their return? What was the social impact of overseas travel, and how did the broad umbrella of army welfare services change soldiers' expectations of civilian life? And what role if any did ex-servicemen play in post-war nationalist politics? In this book African soldiers describe in their own words what it was like to undergo army training, to travel on a vast ocean, to experience battle, and their hopes and disappointments on demobilisation.
DAVID KILLINGRAY is Professor Emeritus of History, Goldsmiths, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.
World War, 1939-1945 --- Soldiers --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- Participation, African. --- History --- Social aspects --- Great Britain. --- Angliǐskai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ --- Tsava ha-Briṭi --- British Army --- בריטניה. --- צבא הבריטי --- England and Wales. --- Military life --- Colonial forces --- African experience. --- African soldiers. --- African troops. --- British Army. --- Burma. --- David Killingray. --- Horn of Africa. --- Italy. --- Middle East. --- Second World War. --- army life. --- army welfare services. --- campaigns. --- overseas travel. --- post-war nationalist politics.
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The Right Reverend Llewellyn Gwynne's diaries offer a unique insight into a period of change for the army, chaplains and the Church of England during a critical period of the First World War. Few men spent the whole of World War One serving in the British Expeditionary Force, from its initial deployment in August 1914 to its demobilization in February 1919. One who did was the Right Reverend Llewellyn Gwynne, the bishop of Khartoum. On leave in London in the summer of 1914, he persuaded the archbishop of Canterbury that his experience with troops in the Sudan made him an ideal candidate for a temporary commission as a chaplain. Gwynne went to France with a Hospital and then, in December 1914, was transferred to a Field Ambulance in the front line. During July 1915, he was summoned back to London to be told that he was now the Deputy Chaplain General and thus responsiblefor the oversight of all Anglican chaplains. An inveterate diarist, Gwynne kept a detailed record of his life as a unit chaplain and how he managed the transition to high office in the Army Chaplains' Department. The diaries arepreceded by an introduction that discusses the work and organisation of Anglican chaplains in the department and how Gwynne came to have the role in it that he did. Together, they offer a unique insight into a period of change forthe army, chaplains and the Church of England during a critical period of the war. The Rev. Dr PETER HOWSON is a Methodist Minister who had a career as an army chaplain before turning to research. He is the author of Muddling Through: The organisation of British army chaplaincy in the First World War and is the Secretary of the Society for Army Historical Research.
World War, 1914-1918 --- Chaplains --- Church of England --- Clergy. --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern --- Anglican Church --- Anglikanskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Ecclesia Anglicana --- Kirche von England --- United Church of England and Ireland --- Gwynne, Llewellyn H., --- Great Britain. --- World War (1914-1918) --- 1914-1918 --- Army Chaplains' Department. --- Army Chaplains. --- Army life. --- British Expeditionary Force. --- British history. --- Chaplaincy. --- Church of England. --- Critical period. --- Deputy Chaplain General. --- Diaries. --- First World War. --- Frontline accounts. --- Historical insight. --- Historical records. --- Khartoum bishop. --- Military history. --- Military transitions. --- Organizational changes. --- Personal narratives. --- Rt. Rev. Llewellyn Gwynne. --- Soldier's perspective. --- Temporary commission. --- Unit chaplain. --- War experiences. --- War memoirs. --- War service. --- World War I.
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