Introduction
1: Policy-making and Police-makers
2: The New Model Army and the Cold War, 1945-1952
3: Service in the National Service Army
4: BAOR, MELF and Conventional Deterrence: 1948 to 1956
5: Counter-insurgency Operations, 1945 to 1956
6: 'Fire brigades'. Expeditionary Operations, 1945-1956
7: Duncan Sandys and the Creation of the All-Regular Army
8: 'A Good Employer'? The All-Regular Army
9: BAOR's Doctrine for Nuclear War
10: BAOR and the Nuclear Battlefield
11: 'Village Cricket': Expeditionary Operations, 1958-1966
12: The Army and the withdrawal from East of Suez
Conclusion: a Potemkin Army
Bibliography
Index
David French was at the University of York and the War Studies
Department at King's College London. He spent 27 years at
University College London before taking early retirement in 2008 to
become a full-time writer. Professor French is the author of six
previous books, and has been the recipient of the Arthur Goodzeit
Prize of the New York Military Affairs Symposium. He is a
three-time winner of the Templer Medal awarded by the Society for
Army Historical Research.
He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the
Historical Association, and a member of the editorial board of the
Journal of Strategic Studies, and the Council of the Army
Records
Society.
This book takes a fresh approach to an overlooked period of our
military history. No-one with an interest in the history of the
British Army can afford to ignore it.
*Jonathan Eaton, Military History Monthly*
Until now, one of the critical missing parts of post-1945 history
has been an up-to-date and substantial account of the British Army,
based on how the Army viewed itself, as well as how critics
assessed it. David French comprehensively fills this gap with
command of detail and a balanced treatment of what he describes as
a 'military dinosaur'.
*Wm. Roger Louis, English Historical Review*
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