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Report on Experience

Door John Mulgan

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#197759
Titel	Report on Experience
Auteur	Mulgan, John
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Jaar van uitgave	2010
ISBN10	1848325541
ISBN13	9781848325548
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Common men no longer start wars: they take part in them when someone else has started them. War nowadays is a major accident and calamity, it is a storm that is seen a long way off' Report on Experience is an incisive and compelling memoir, written by a quietly heroic author. This brilliantly-written work provides an insight not just into the mind of the author, but the prevailing attitudes of wartime Britain and Europe. In simple but effective prose, Mulgan traces the Allies' path to World War II and the widespread reluctance of the population to accept the reality of hostilities. Mulgan was a determined man who who was appalled by the inaction of his peers and superiors, then by the limp and unrealistic reactions to aggression. He rallies against the folly of re-employing the same pe... (Lees verder)rsonnel, in the same offices with the same filing cabinets as those which had been used for World War I. He comments, "The Germans, unfortunately, had a new set of files, not to say a new filing system'. He describes the camaraderie among troops, but the incompetence of many of those in positions of authority and the rigidity of the command structure. The memoir moves on to cover his time as part of a battalion in Egypt and his first experiences of witnessing death. He then covers his time in Greece hiding with partisans. Throughout, however, this is not just a factual account but a story told poetically with spirit and insight. This new edition of the work has an introduction by the acclaimed SOE historian M R D Foot, together with a foreword by John Mulgan's son Richard.
Pagina's	224
Conditie	Nieuw
Prijs	€ 10,00

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