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  • Embattled Belief

    Religion and the British Army from Korea to Afghanistan

    de Michael Snape ...
    Series series Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    This book examines the neglected role of religion in the British Army in an era of rapid and far-reaching change. Covering the Cold War, the end of empire, seismic shifts in Britain's cultural and religious landscape, and the dramatic shrinkage of the armed forces, Michael Snape reveals religion's abiding importance at an institutional, individual and operational level. He explores the religious ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Forgotten Warrior

    The Life and Times of Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith 1890-1942

    de Michael Snape ...
    Eighty years after his death in a Japanese prison camp, this compelling new biography charts the career of a distinguished but hitherto neglected hero of the British army.Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith DSO, MC commanded the British 18th Division during the catastrophic Fall of Singapore in February 1942. A highly respected and much decorated veteran of the First World War, he was captured ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • A Church Militant

    Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War

    de Michael Snape ...
    This is a study of the relationship between Anglicans and the armed forces, of the military heritage and history of the Anglican Communion, and the changing nature of this relationship between the mid-Victorian period and the 1970s. This era spanned a period of imperial expansion and colonial conflict round the turn of the twentieth century, the two World Wars, the Cold War, wars of decolonisation ... Leer más

    $125.99 USD

  • Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity

    de Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer, Felicity Heal, Dr Sarah Apetrei, Revd Canon Dr Judith D. Maltby, Alison Dight, Professor Eamon Duffy, Canon Professor Michael Snape, Hannah Cleugh, Ashley Null, Alec Ryrie1, Jonathan Yonan3, Dr James Carleton Paget4, Professor Morna D. Hooker5, Anik Laferriere6, Professor Korey Maas7, Professor Euan Cameron8, Ethan H. Shagan9 ...
    Christianity is a hugely diverse and quarrelsome family of faiths, but most Christians have nevertheless set great store by orthodoxy - literally, 'right opinion' - even if they cannot agree what that orthodoxy should be. The notion that there is a 'catholic', or universal, Christian faith - that which, according to the famous fifth-century formula, has been believed everywhere, at all times and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Secularisation in the Christian World

    de Michael Snape ...
    The power of modernity to secularise has been a foundational idea of the western world. Both social science and church history understood that the Christian religion from 1750 was deeply vulnerable to industrial urbanisation and the Enlightenment. But as evidence mounts that countries of the European world experienced secularising forces in different ways at different periods, the timing and ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • The Clergy in Khaki

    New Perspectives on British Army Chaplaincy in the First World War

    de Edward Madigan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in First World War History
    British army chaplains have not fared well in the mythology of the First World War. Like its commanders they have often been characterized as embodiments of ineptitude and hypocrisy. Yet, just as historians have reassessed the motives and performance of British generals, this collection offers fresh insights into the war record of British chaplains. Drawing on the expertise of a dozen academic ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • The Redcoat and Religion

    The Forgotten History of the British Soldier from the Age of Marlborough to the Eve of the First World War

    de Michael Snape ...
    Series series Christianity and Society in the Modern World
    This compelling study presents the most comprehensive examination available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Through extensive analysis of official military sources, religious publications and personal memoirs, Michael Snape challenges the widely-held assumption that religion did not play a role in the British Army until the mid-Victorian period, ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • God and the British Soldier

    Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars

    de Michael Snape ...
    Series series Christianity and Society in the Modern World
    Drawing on a wealth of new material from military, ecclesiastical and secular civilian archives, Michael Snape presents a study of the experience of the officers and men of Britain’s vast citizen armies, and also of the numerous religious agencies which ministered to them.Historians of the First and Second World Wars have consistently underestimated the importance of religion in Britain during the ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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    de Richard Killeen ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries.Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, war, the fight for liberty. A Brief History of Ireland is the perfect introduction to this exceptional place, its people and its culture.Ireland has been home to successive groups of settlers - Celts, Vikings, Normans, ... Leer más

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  • Public Schools and The Great War

    The Generation Lost

    de Anthony Seldon, David Walsh ...
    "A sweeping riveting history that manages to capture the essence of the conflict, as well as the contributions of particular schools and individuals." — HMC Insight MagazineIn this pioneering and original book, Anthony Seldon and David Walsh study the impact that the public schools had on the conduct of the Great War, and vice versa. Drawing on fresh evidence from 200 leading public schools and ... Leer más

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  • The Story Of The 1798 Rebellion

    de Gillian O'Brien ...
    Series series The Story Of Series
    The story of Ireland's bloody and doomed rebellion of 1798.The 1798 Rebellion forms a central part of the narrative of modern Irish History. It marks at once the formation of a unified catholic and protestant movement for independence and the beginning of the end for the home rule experiment of the Grattan’s parliament.Like much of Ireland’s history it also encourages debate and discussion. In ... Leer más

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  • The Last Great War

    British Society and the First World War

    de Adrian Gregory ...
    What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914–18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of ... Leer más

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