Conscription and the Attlee Governments: The Politics and Policy of National Service 1945-1951

by Len Scott

This is a detailed study of the years immediately following World War II, when for the first time in Britain peacetime conscription was practised. The author examines the military thinking regarding conscription, showing how the 1947 National Service Act came to be regarded by the military as deficient and expensive.

314 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993