Warrior Race: A History of the British at War - Softcover
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Modern Britain is a nation shaped by wars. The boundaries of its separate parts are the outcome of conquest and resistance. The essence of its identity are the warrior heroes, both real and imagined, who still capture the national imagination; from Boudicca to King Arthur, William Wallace to Henry V, the Duke of Wellington to Winston Churchill. In WARRIOR RACE, Lawrence James investigates the role played by war in the making of Britain. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological research, as well as numerous unfamiliar and untapped resources, he charts the full reach of British military history: the physical and psychological impact of Roman military occupation; the monarchy's struggle for mastery of the British Isles; the civil wars of the seventeenth century; the 'total war' experience of twentieth century conflict. WARRIOR RACE is popular history at its very best: immaculately researched and hugely readable. Balancing the broad sweep of history with an acute attention to detail, Lawrence James never loses sight of this most fascinating and enduring of subjects: the question of British national identity and character.
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Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2002-9-1 Pages: 864 Publisher: Little Brown Modern Britain is a nation shaped by wars The boundaries ofits separate parts are the outcome of conquest and resistance.Warrior heroes - real. imaginary and a mixture of both. - are deeplyembedded in the collective memories and culture of the English. Welsh. Scots and Irish Boadicea. King Arthur. Wallace. Rob Roy andHenry V still enjoy a powerful hold over the imagination.Britishness has had a sense of collective identity which grew undercareful. official cultivation during the global struggles of the18th century and found its most powerful expression during theworld wars of the 20th. Modern war was seen as the ultimate test ofa nations moral and physical stamina. and Britain emerged with anenviable record which underpinned national pride and a sense ofsuperiority that survived well into the s...
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'Compellingly written.Lawrence James has read unusually widely' -MRD Foot, SPECTATOR
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- PublisherAbacus
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0349114862
- ISBN 13 9780349114866
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages880
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