National Service: The Best Years of Their Lives

More than 2 million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed forces during the period of National Service, which began after the Second World War and was phased out by 1963. Aged just eighteen, these individuals, many of whom had never left their home towns, were put in uniform to serve their nation. It was an experience that left a profound mark on the post-war generations, as described using first-hand accounts and official documents in this detailed, entertaining and hugely informative account of the National Service years.

TREVOR ROYLE

History

Andre Deutsch

An analysis of the civil wars of Great Britian compares them to that of the United States to discuss how the battles of Lexington and Concord were extensions of the British Civil War, cite the roles of such figures as Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, and more.

The British Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660

Europe

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more desperate battles like Marston Moor and Naseby. The fighting was also to rage through Scotland and Ireland, notably at the siege of Drogheda and the decisive battle of Dunbar. The tumultuous Civil War was a pivotal one in British history. From his shrewd analyses of the multifarious characters who played their parts in the wars to his brilliantly concise descriptions of battles, Trevor Royle has produced a vivid and dramatic narrative of those turbulent years. His book also reveals how the new ideas and dispensations that followed from the wars - Cromwell's Protectorate, the Restoration of Charles II and the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1689 - made it possible for England, Ireland and Scotland to progress towards their own more distant future as democratic societies.

The Civil War : The War of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660

World

Little,Brown & Company

THE BEST YEARS OF THEIR LIVES: National Service Experience, 1945-63

Military

Coronet Books

Glubb Pasha: The Life and Times of Sir John Bagot Glubb, Commander of the Arab Legion

Biographies & Memoirs

Little,Brown

The Last Days of the Raj

Asia

Michael, Joseph

<p>India's declaration of independance on 15 August 1947 was a momentous occasion. For the British, who had ruled there for over 200 years, it was the start of a process to discard its world empire. This text explores, through the voices and memories of both the British and Indians, the drama and tensions of the years leading up to, and following, Independance. The text combines historical narrative with these interviews and presents a social history and an insight into a significant period in British history.</p>

Americas

Rupa&Co

Acclaimed military historian Trevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War. The country's geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war materiel and reinforcements, for conducting naval and aerial operations against the enemy and for training regular and specialist SOE and commando forces. Scotland also became a social melting pot with the arrival of Polish and eastern European refugees, whose presence added to the communal mix and assisted post-war reconstruction. In addition to the important military aspects - the exploits of the army's renowned 15th Scottish and 51st Highland Divisions in Europe and North Africa and the role played by the RAF and the Royal Navy from Scottish bases - Scotland was also hugely important as an industrial power house and the nation's larder. The war also had a huge impact on politics, with national centralization achieved through the creation of the Scottish Office and the Scottish Grand Committee. With the emergence of the post-war Labour government and the welfare state, nationalism went into decline and the arrival of socialist hegemony, especially in the west, paved the way for the command politics which dominated Scotland for the rest of the century. Based on previously unseen archives in the Scottish Record Office, A Time of Tyrants is the first history of the unique role played by Scotland and the Scots in the global war to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

A Time of Tyrants: Scotland and the Second World War

Birlinn Publishers

In this work , Phillip Hills of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society has brought together a distinguished and challenging team of writers on the dram. In this illustrated volume George Rosie discusses the place of whisky in the politics and economics of Scotland over the last 100 years; Trevor Royle examines the role of whisky in the British Empire; Murray Grigor assesses the portrayal of whisky in the media; David Daiches considers the place of whisky in Scottish society; Hamish Henderson looks at the amber nectar in folk song, ballad and broadsheet; Alan Bold ruminates on the impact of the national liquor on Scots literature; Ruth Wishart confronts the issue of women and whisky; while Derek Cooper deliberates on how whisky is coming to be perceived by discerning drinkers worldwide. Norman McCaig, Liz Lochhead and Hamish Henderson contribute poetry and verse.

Scots on Scotch: The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Book of Whisky (1st Edition)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

George Rosie

Norman MacCaig

Colin McArthur

Beverages & Wine

Mainstream Publishing Company

NATIONAL SERVICE - the Best Years of Their Lives

SevenOaks

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