Author: ROYLE, TREVOR
Title: The Best Years of Their Lives - the National Service Experience 1945-63
Description: London, Michael Joseph. 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 0718124596). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good copy with inscription to front endpaper and ghosting imprints from dustjacket to boards. Dustjacket is not price clipped. A record of the experiences of a unique cross section of British society, evoking the good and bad times, of their National Service between 1945-1963. Legions of fresh faced 18 year olds were conscripted in the wake of the Second World War to oversee the dismantling of an empire and to garrison West Germany in the lowered temperatures of the Cold War. 3. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: National Service, Korea, Malaya, West Germany, Middle East 0718124596


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