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Demobbed
Coming Home After World War Two



This book tells a gripping tale that’s in danger of being lost to national memory: the story of what really happened when millions of British servicemen returned home after the war. Drawing on letters and diaries, and on newspapers, reports, novels, and films, Alan Allport illuminates the darker side of the homecoming experience for veterans, their families and British society at large.

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2010   280 pp.
Paper ISBN: 9780300168860
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Cloth ISBN: 9780300140439
$65.00
 
Capital Affairs
London and the Making of the Permissive Society



An arresting history of sex and politics in London during the 1950s and ’60s that charts the course of modern British society and the birth of the so-called permissive society.

   528 pp.   -   Paper ISBN: 9780300187502
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Capital Affairs
London and the Making of the Permissive Society



An arresting history of sex and politics in London during the 1950s and ’60s that charts the course of modern British society and the birth of the so-called permissive society.

2010   528 pp.
Cloth ISBN: 9780300118797
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Nights Out
Life in Cosmopolitan London



In this lively book Judith Walkowitz shows how London’s sophisticated and subversive Soho district became a showcase for a new twentieth-century cosmopolitan identity.

2012   432 pp.   -   Cloth ISBN: 9780300151947
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OTHER SECTIONS IN OUR HISTORY 2012 CATALOG:


Atlantic History
Colonial & Early American History
Nineteenth-Century America
The Lamar Series in Western History
Twentieth-Century America
American History -- General
Military History
Ancient History
Medieval, Renaissance, & Reformation History
Yale English Monarchs
Seventeenth- & Eighteenth-Century Britain
Nineteenth-Century Britain
British History -- General
Seventeenth- & Eighteenth-Century Europe
Nineteenth-Century Europe
Twentieth-Century Europe
European History -- General
Russian & Eastern European History
Religious History
The Middle East
African History
Asian History
History -- General Interest