''At Duty''s Call'' - A Study in Obsolete Patriotism

In this book, Reader attempts to understand the extraordinary mass voluntary enlistment of two and a half million men in the British army in the first sixteenth months of the Great War

List of contents

Foreword
1. 'Their name liveth for evermore'
2. On war: Clausewitz, Darwin, Henty and others
3. The British Empire: 'Dominion over palm and pine'
4. Germany rising
5. The temples of the faith: 'the best school of all'
6. Voluntary enlistment 1914-15: 'Your country needs YOU!'
7. 'The old lie...?'
Bibliography
Index

About the author

W. J. Reader was a freelance historian associated with the Business History Unit at the London School of Economics

Summary

In this book, Reader attempts to understand the extraordinary mass voluntary enlistment of two and a half million men in the British army in the first sixteenth months of the Great War -- .

Product details

• Authors: W. J. Reader, William Joseph Reader
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1988
• EAN: 9780719097539
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9753-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism Mup; Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, First World War, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I