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The Call-Up: A History Of National Service

Author
Tom Hickman
Narrator
Jim Swingler
Length
13 hours 15 minutes
Publisher
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Catalogue Number
7763
Synopsis

After WW2 ended, Britain's new Labour government took an unprecedented step - the introduction of compulsory military service in peacetime. When national service ended in 1963 over two million young men had been called up. The experiences of over 100 men, some hilarious others harrowing, are recorded in this book.