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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Editors' Introduction | |
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| A personal reflection on the two World Wars | |
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| Preparing for war: the experience of the Cameronians | |
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| Waging the undersea war: a British perspective | |
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| The merchant seaman at war | |
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| War in the air: the fighter pilot | |
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| War in the air: the bomber crew | |
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| The Desert War experience | |
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| War in the Pacific | |
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| War in the Tropics: East Africa and Burma | |
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| Hitting the beach: the amphibious experience | |
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| British Special Forces operations behind enemy lines | |
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| Partisans and guerrillas | |
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| The experience of being abroad: doughboys and GIs in Europe | |
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| German soldiers in victory, 1914 and 1940 | |
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| The experience of defeat: Kut (1916) and Singapore (1942) | |
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| The experience of killing | |
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| The experience of captivity: British and Commonwealth prisoners in Germany | |
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| Casualties and British medical services | |
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| Spies, codebreakers and secret agents | |
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| Monarchy in wartime: King George V and King George VI | |
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| Political leaders in wartime: Lloyd George and Churchill | |
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| Erich Ludendorff and Tojo Hideki: some comparisons | |
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| Foch and Eisenhower: Supreme Commanders | |
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| General Brusilov and Marshal Zhukov, June 1916 and June 1944 | |
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| Reflections on the experience of British generalship | |
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| Coalition war: the Anglo-American experience | |
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| Coalition war: British and France | |
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| Coalition war: Germany and her Allies, Austria-Hungary and Italy | |
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| The experience of occupation: Belgium | |
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| The experience of occupation: Northern France | |
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| The experience of occupation: Poland | |
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| The experience of displacement: refugees and war | |
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| The experience of genocide: Armenia 1915-16 and Romania 1914-42 | |
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| Index | |