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SIX CAMPAIGNS: National Servicemen at War, 1948-1960
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SIX CAMPAIGNS: National Servicemen at War, 1948-1960 Hardcover - 1993

by Walker, Adrian


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Britain's only experience of a peacetime draft, which saw conscripts fighting conventional battles in Korea and conducting a long-term guerrilla war against the Mau Mau.

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  • Title SIX CAMPAIGNS: National Servicemen at War, 1948-1960
  • Author Walker, Adrian
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pen and Sword, London
  • Date 1993
  • ISBN 9780850523201
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by Walker, Adrian. (Neil Ascherson, Pat Baker, Bill Billings, George Brown, Gordon Butt, Leo Campbell, Roger Davies, Ian Edwards, Rex Flowers, Robert Gretton, Ron Harper, David Hartley, Ron Hawkes, Brian Hughes, Tom King, Owen Parfitt, Alun Pask, et a

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London: Leo Cooper, 1993. 169 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). Maps. "Between the years 1948 and 1960, British armed forces were involved in six campaigns overseas, in Malaya, Korea, Cyprus, Suez and South Arabia. In order to provide the manpower for these operations, fixed-term universal male peacetime conscription was instituted for the only time in this country's history. Of the million and a half men called up on reaching the age of eighteen, about a hundred and twenty-five thousand, or one in twelve, served in an active theatre of operations, for which a campaign medal was awarded. This book consists of the reminiscences of twenty-three of these men, who each served in one, or in some cases two, of the six campaigns. They recall, often with some emotion, their service in far-off places, against largely invisible enemies, in pursuit of aims which remain obscure to this day. They remember the brutality, the hardship, the excitement and the humour of an experience which for all of them… Read More
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