List of Plates -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. 'Marching as to War': The Nineteenth-Century Inheritance -- 2. 'Faithful, True, and Bold': The First World War -- 3. ''Gainst All Disaster': The Second World War -- 4. 'Aflame with Faith, and Free': The Cold War -- 5. 'The Great Surrender Made': Remembrance and Memorialization -- Afterword: 'Change and Decay'? The Church of England into the Twenty-First -- Century -- Postscript: Early Reflections on the War in Ukraine -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This is a study of the relationship between Anglicans and the armed forces, of the military heritage and history of Anglican Communion, and the changing nature of this relationship between the mid-Victorian period and the 1970s (spanning imperial expansion, colonial conflict, both World Wars, the Cold War, wars of decolonisation, and Vietnam)
