Permission to speak, Sah In the aftermath of the Second World War, over two million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed services. Some were sent abroad and watched their friends die in combat. Others remained in barracks and painted coal white. But despite delivering such varied experiences, National Service helped to shape the outlook of an entire generation of young British males. Historian Dr Colin Shindler has interviewed a wide range of ex-conscripts, from all backgrounds, across all ranks, and spanning the entire fourteen years that peacetime conscription lasted,...
Permission to speak, Sah In the aftermath of the Second World War, over two million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed services. So...
Colin Shindler's evocative and hilarious book relives the problems of growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family in central Manchester in the 1950s and 1960s - as a Manchester City fan, permanently under the shadow of United.
Colin Shindler's evocative and hilarious book relives the problems of growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family in central Manchester in the 1950s and 1...
