Politics and Military Morale: Current-Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Army, 1914-1950 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

ISBN: 019820244X

Author: MacKenzie, S. P.

Condition: New

The first scholarly examination of education in current affairs and citizenship within the British Army in the twentieth century, this book charts the development of army education from its beginnings in the First World War through its heyday in the Second World War, and analyzes its final demise in the 1950s. MacKenzie uses extensive research to analyze the thinking which lay behind the establishment of army education schemes, their function, and their effects. In particular, he explores the controversial question of the part played in Labour's 1945 election victory by the rank and file of the British army, often asserted to have absorbed the left-wing attitudes of the Army Bureau of Current Affairs and the Army Educational Corps. A comprehensive and rigorous study, this book makes an important contribution to the history of the modern British Army.