Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The Cardwell-Childers Reforms and the Re-creation of the Regimental System
2: Recruiting for the Regiments
3: Basic Training
4: The Construction of the Idea of 'the Regiment'
5: Barrack Life
6: The Leadership of the Regimental system: Officers and NCOs
7: Deviancy and Discipline in the Regimental System
8: The Auxiliary Regiments
9: Civilians and their Regiments
10: The Regimental System and the Battlefield
11: The Creation of the Post-Modern Regimental System, c.1945-1970
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

David French is Professor of History at University College London.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition '...an excellent book... Military Identities doubtless will be essential reading for scholars of the modern British army for decades to come. '
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S.P. MacKenzie, Twentieth-Century British History
`'indispensable for military historians'
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Geoffrey Best, London Review of Books
`'This book is important for today as an accurate and wideranging archive and a pointer towards more radical reforms still required.'
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Michael Tillotson, The Times
`'An exemplary study of the British Army in the Second World War... his book is meticulously scholarly'
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Max Hastings, The Sunday Telegraph
`'[an] excellent new study...Professor French brings cool analysis to a subject that too often generates heat rather than light. He marshals a formidable array of evidence to argue his case.'
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BBC History Magazine
`'[an] excellent history...Like all the best histories, this book has much to tell us about how to do our business today. This is a splendid survey of British armies... David French has made a heroic attempt to cover the ground; he succeeeds...because it is well-written and the subject is fascinating.'
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John Wilson, British Army Review