David French explores Britain's post-war defence policy, placing the army centre-stage. He sheds new light on this critical period by drawing from a range of primary sources and explains why we should remember the forgotten post-war British army.
David French explores Britain's post-war defence policy, placing the army centre-stage. He sheds new light on this critical period by drawing from a range of primary sources and explains why we should remember the forgotten post-war British army.
There is ... a need for a new narrative of the history of the [British] army in the two and a half decades after the Second World War ... This book will try to produce it by placing the history of the post-war army within the wider context of the British strategic culture, by fo…
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 focus…
Strategic Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond looks at the many events, personalities, and controversies in the field of intelligence and espionage since the end of World War II. A crucial but often neglected topic, strategic intelligence took on added significance during th…
"Covering the period since 1945 this book looks at the debates, controversies and events that have occured in the field of intelligence and espionage. In this volume, Jefferson Adams places the events and discussions that have sourounded the history of espoinage in their histori…
Strategic Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond looks at the many events, personalities, and controversies in the field of intelligence and espionage since the end of World War II. A crucial but often neglected topic, strategic intelligence took on added significance during th…
"Covering the period since 1945 this book looks at the debates, controversies and events that have occurred in the field of intelligence and espionage. In this volume, Jefferson Adams places the events and discussions that have surrounded the history of espionage in their histor…
Although by about 1950 both British Borneo, including the protected sultanate of Brunei, and Indonesian Borneo seemed settled under their different regimes and well on the way to post-war reconstruction and economic development, the upheavals which affected Southeast and East As…
Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy--;focusing particularly on nuclear weapons and nuclear power--on the lives of Americans within a world context. The text examines the social, political, diplomatic, environmental, and technical impacts of atomic en…
