Few military or ecclesiastical figures are as controversial as the military chaplain, routinely attacked by pacifist and anticlerical commentators and too readily dismissed by religious and military historians. This highly revisionist study represents a complete reappraisal of the role of the British army chaplain and of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department in the first century and a half of its existence. Challenging old caricatures and stereotypes and drawing on a wealth of new archival material, it surveys the political, denominational and organisational development of the R.A.Ch.D.,...
Few military or ecclesiastical figures are as controversial as the military chaplain, routinely attacked by pacifist and anticlerical commentators and...
Holmes clarifies the complexities of four major WWII military engagements: El Alamein, Italy, Arnhem, and the Battle of Britain. He recreates what it was really like to be in the midst of conflict from eye-witness accounts of servicemen and women.
Holmes clarifies the complexities of four major WWII military engagements: El Alamein, Italy, Arnhem, and the Battle of Britain. He recreates what it ...
