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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War: Great War separation

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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War. The British Experience in Two World Wars. Friday, 13 July 2012. Peter Doyle's Book First World War Britain. Published by Shire Publications, is out now, and is available here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). London, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. Peter Doyle Military History. Peter Doyle's Amazon Page. All Party War Heritage Group. Peter Doyle Consultant geologist.

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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War: Tommy: from Service Dress to Battledress

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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War. The British Experience in Two World Wars. Sunday, 5 February 2012. Tommy: from Service Dress to Battledress. Peter Doyle's new book British Army Cap Badges of the Second World War. Shire), written with Chris Foster, is now available from Shire (here). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). London, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. Peter Doyle Military History. Peter Doyle's Amazon Page. All Party War Heritage Group. Peter Doyle Consultant geologist.

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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War: The Silence

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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War. The British Experience in Two World Wars. Friday, 10 February 2012. How much were the conditions at the conditions at the front discussed at home? In the postwar discourse of disenchantment; in the great outpouring of literary books by Sassoon, Blunden, Graves and a host of others in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the 'mud, blood and rats as big as cats' was laid on with a trowel. But just how much did the average Tommy talk about his experiences, even with loved ones?

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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War: Battlefield tourism

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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War. The British Experience in Two World Wars. Sunday, 29 January 2012. Peter Doyle is an author and military historian; details of some of his work can be found on his website Peter Doyle Military History. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). London, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. Peter Doyle Military History. Peter Doyle's Amazon Page. All Party War Heritage Group. Peter Doyle Consultant geologist.

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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War: Tommy: the individualist

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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War. The British Experience in Two World Wars. Thursday, 29 March 2012. The British Army has a venerable history. At its heart is the regiment, and with it the distinctive ceremonials, regimental colours, mottos and mascots intended to propagate espirit de corps. Marrying the British Soldier to his parent unit, thereby creating loyalty in battle. While much of the mechanics of espirit de corps. Or Second World War ( here. Both have been critically acclaimed. London, United Kingdom.

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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War: Tommy's French

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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War. The British Experience in Two World Wars. Friday, 24 February 2012. Thrown into a new country, Tommy quickly picked up enough French to get by, just as he had in India as a pre-war regular. A variety of pidgin French was soon developed, despite the efforts of the authorities to encourage proficiency. ‘Napoo’ was a particular favourite, meaning no more, finished, broken, worn out, or useless – it was derived from il n’y en a plus. For home), bundook. Peter Doyle's book Tommy's War.

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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War: Recruiting for Kitchener’s Army

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Peter Doyle: Tommy's War. The British Experience in Two World Wars. Wednesday, 29 February 2012. Recruiting for Kitchener’s Army. The object of this game is to recruit as many able bodies as possible from the major cities of the United Kingdom (which included the whole of Ireland at the time). In its way, the existence of this game added to the pressure on the civilian to join, chiming with another popular Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster ‘Daddy, What did you do in the Great War?