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• Book Title: The defenders. A history of the British volunteer
• Author: Geoffrey Cousins
• ISBN: MW 0044229
• Publisher: Frederick Muller
• Year Published: 1968
• Our Price: £24.20 GBP ($39.93 USD)
• Description: Frederick Muller, 1968: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 5.5 x 9 inches tall: 224 pages including index: black and white illustrations. Synopsis: A history of the volunteer, the British Citizen who, over the centuries, has gone to to war unavailingly when threatened with invasion and slavery. This volume details the activities of the ordinary patriotic man across the centuries; the part-time efforts of the Anglo-Saxon fyrd ; the development of the volunteer movement during the Napoleonic Wars; the permanent establishment of a volunteer corps in 1859; the involvement of volunteers in the Boer War ; the birth of the territorial Army; the rush to enlist in 1914 ; and the total integration of the citizens in world War II. Condition: small sticker to front endpaper: overall very clean and good/not far from new.
• Condition: Collectable- Very Good
• Dustcover: Yes
• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Used Books

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