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Title Manpower and the armies of the British Empire in the two world wars / edited by Douglas E. Delaney, Mark Frost, and Andrew L. Brown
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 298 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Government that Could Not Say No and Australia's Military Effort, 1914-1918 / Jean Bou -- Irish Identities in the British Army during the First World War / Richard S. Grayson -- Conserving British Manpower during and after the First World War / Jessica Meyer -- The Canadian Garrison Artillery Goes to War, 1914-1918 / Roger Sarty -- "Returning Home to Fight": Bristolians in the Dominion Armies, 1914-1918 / Kent Fedorowich & Charles Booth -- Martial Races and Recruitment in the Indian Army during Two World Wars / Kaushik Roy -- Manpower, Training and the Battlefield Leadership of British Army Officers in the Era of the Two World Wars / Gary Sheffield -- Legitimacy, Consent, and the Mobilization of the British and Commonwealth Armies during the Second World War / Jonathan Fennell -- "Enemy Aliens" and the Formation of Australia's 8th Employment Company as a Response to the Japanese Threat in 1942 / Paul R. Bartrop -- The Body and Becoming a Soldier in Britain during the Second World War / Emma Newlands -- Canada and the Mobilization of Manpower during the Second World War / Daniel Byers -- South African Manpower and the Second World War / Ian van der Waag -- Manpower Mobilization and Rehabilitation in New Zealand's Second World War / Ian McGibbon -- Caring for British Commonwealth Soldiers in the Aftermath of the Second World War / Meghan Fitzpatrick
Summary "Examines how the British Empire and Commonwealth mobilized manpower for the armed services, agriculture, and industry during the two world wars and how they cared for veterans, both able-bodied and disabled, when the fighting was over"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2021)
Subject Great Britain. Army -- Colonial forces -- History -- 20th century
Great Britain. Army -- History -- World War, 1914-1918
Great Britain. Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
SUBJECT Great Britain. Army fast
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Manpower -- Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945 -- Manpower -- Great Britain
HISTORY / Military / World War II
Armed Forces
Armed Forces -- Colonial forces
Manpower
SUBJECT Commonwealth countries -- Armed Forces -- History -- 20th century
Subject Commonwealth countries
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Delaney, Douglas E. (Douglas Edward), 1964- editor.
Frost, Mark (Mark Richard), 1974- editor.
Brown, Andrew L. (Andrew Lawrence), 1968- editor.
LC no. 2020039601
ISBN 9781501755866
1501755862
9781501755859
1501755854