Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2021
- Category
- World War II, Great Britain, World War I
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781501755842
- Publish Date
- Jun 2021
- List Price
- $44.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781501755835
- Publish Date
- Jun 2021
- List Price
- $175.95
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Description
In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen.
Raising armies is more than counting people, putting them in uniform, and assigning them to formations. It demands efficient measures for recruitment, registration, and assignment. It requires processes for transforming common people into soldiers and then producing officers, staffs, and commanders to lead them. It necessitates balancing the needs of the armed services with industry and agriculture. And, often overlooked but illuminated incisively here, raising armies relies on medical services for mending wounded soldiers and programs and pensions to look after them when demobilized.
Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars is a transnational look at how the empire did not always get these things right. But through trial, error, analysis, and introspection, it levied the large armies needed to prosecute both wars.
Contributors Paul R. Bartrop, Charles Booth, Jean Bou, Daniel Byers, Kent Fedorowich, Jonathan Fennell, Meghan Fitzpatrick, Richard S. Grayson, Ian McGibbon, Jessica Meyer, Emma Newlands, Kaushik Roy, Roger Sarty, Gary Sheffield, Ian van der Waag
About the authors
Contributor Notes
Douglas E. Delaney holds the Canada Research Chair in War Studies
Mark Frost is a Postdoctoral Fellow in War Studies
Andrew L. Brown is Assistant Professor of History and an officer in the Canadian Intelligence Corps?all at the Royal Military College of Canada.
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