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Paperback The Volunteer Force: A Social and Political History 1859-1908 Book

ISBN: 0367233274

ISBN13: 9780367233273

The Volunteer Force: A Social and Political History 1859-1908

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Originally published in 1975, The Volunteer Force is a study of the part-time military force which came into being to meet the mid-nineteenth century fear of French invasion. It survived and grew for fifty years until in 1908 it was renamed and remodelled as the Territorial Force. Composed initially of middle-class and often middle-aged gentlemen who elected their own officers and paid for their own equipment, the Volunteer Force soon became...

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