Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War

TitleDemobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsAllport, Alan
Number of Pages265
PublisherYale University Press
CityNew Haven, CT
Abstract

What happened when millions of British servicemen were "demobbed"--demobilized--after World War II? Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded with ambivalence, regrets, and fears. Returning soldiers faced both practical and psychological problems, from reasserting their place in the family home to rejoining a much-altered labor force. Civilians worried that their homecoming heroes had been barbarized by their experiences and would bring crime and violence back from the battlefield. Drawing on personal letters and diaries, newspapers, reports, novels, and films, Alan Allport illuminates the darker side of the homecoming experience for ex-servicemen, their families, and society at large--a gripping story that's in danger of being lost to national memory. [Publisher]

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