Army, Empire, and Cold War

Army, Empire, and Cold War

AngličtinaPevná väzbaTlač na objednávku
French, David
Oxford University Press
EAN: 9780199548231
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The veterans of the Fourteenth Army who fought in Burma between 1942 and 1945 called themselves 'the forgotten army'. But that appellation could equally well be applied to the whole of the British army after 1945. Histories of Britain's post-war defence policy have usually focused on how and why Britain acquired a nuclear deterrent. David French takes a new look at these policies by placing the army centre-stage. Drawing on archival sources that have hardly been used by historians, he shows how British governments tried to create an army that would enable them to maintain their position as a major world power at a time when their economy struggled to foot the bill. The result was a growing mismatch between the military resources that the government thought it could afford on the one hand, and a long list of overseas commitments, in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East, that it was reluctant to surrender. The result was that the British created a Potemkin army, a force that had an outwardly impressive facade, but that in reality had only very limited war-fighting capabilities. Army, Empire, and Cold War will interest not only historians of the British army, but also those who are trying to understand Britain's role in the Cold War, and how and why the British came to surrender formal rule over their empire.
EAN 9780199548231
ISBN 0199548234
Typ produktu Pevná väzba
Vydavateľ Oxford University Press
Dátum vydania 26. januára 2012
Stránky 346
Jazyk English
Rozmery 240 x 162 x 26
Krajina United Kingdom
Autori French, David
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