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F.S.P.
"I am in the F.S.P. F.S.P. stands for Field Security Personnel. That is the authorized version." So begins this remarkable account of six months' service with the British Expeditionary Force in France, up to and including the terrible retreat to and evacuation from the beaches of Dunkirk at the end of May, 1940. Absorbing, affecting, thrilling, often funny, this book is very different from other war memoirs. It was the first on-the-ground account of Dunkirk to be published (in 1942) and lacks nothing in the immediacy of its telling. The narrative is gripping and the style is revolutionary, immersing the readers in the emotional and psychological turbulence of the author's experience, and making them feel they are living through it themselves. The result is a stunningly authentic and involving record of one of the defining episodes of twentieth-century British history. Editor N.H. Reeve provides a lucid critical and biographical Afterword, and includes two extracts from an unfinished work by Gwynn-Browne, in which his idiosyncratic stream-of-consciousness style is used to describe the London Blitz and the mood of the civilian population in wartime.
Gone for a Burton
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F. S. P.
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British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime
British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime excavates British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future. As a wartime between, but distinct from, those of the First World War and the Cold War, Second World wartime involves an anxiety that is both repetition and imaginary: both a dread of past violence unleashed anew, and that of a future violence still ungraspable. Identifying a constellation of temporalities and affects under three tropes--time capsules, time zones, and ruins--this volume contends that Second World wartime is a pivotal moment when wartime surpassed the boundaries of a specific state of emergency, becoming f...
Arthur A. Browne
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II
An overview of writing about the war from a global perspective, aimed at students of modern literature.
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Britische Buchverlage im Spannungsfeld von intellektueller Selbstandigkeit, wirtschaftlichem Interesse und patriotischer Verpflichtung im Vorfeld und wahrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs In Zeiten des Krieges gerat verlegerische Praxis unvermeidbar ins Spannungsfeld politischer, ideologischer und okonomischer Auseinandersetzungen. Die Studie zeigt am Beispiel des britischen Verlagsbuchhandels, in welcher Weise sich vor und wahrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs die Einstellungsmuster und Werteordnungen der Verleger gewandelt haben und in welch enger, oft problematischer Beziehung damals die Produktion von Buchern und Zeitschriften zu Staat und Gesellschaft stand. Indem neben der Rolle der Verleger auch Programmplanung und Publikationspraxis ausgewahlter Verlage genauen Analysen unterzogen werden, schliesst die Untersuchung eine Forschungslucke nicht nur der internationalen Verlagsgeschichtsschreibung, sondern auch der Geschichte Grossbritanniens im 20. Jahrhundert: Die Ergebnisse dokumentieren die besonderen Umstande, unter denen das Buch zum Medium des kollektiven Gedachtnisses einer Nation wird.
Sharing the Secret
While written under the auspices of the Trustees of the Military Intelligence Museum, Sharing the Secret is not an academic regimental history. Rather it gives a privileged glimpse into a necessarily publicity-shy organization that has been deeply involved in military intelligence operations since its inception in 1940 through to 2010. Understandably, little has been written about the Corps' work for Official Secret reasons.The development of Field Security and Protective Security and measures taken to protect the Army for espionage, sabotage, subversion and terrorism in peace and war are examined. These tasks were particularly important during the de-Nazification of Germany during the after...
