Veteran Mps and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War: The Memory of All That

by Richard Carr

Between 1918 and 1939, 448 men who performed uniformed service in the First World War became Conservative MPs. This relatively high-profile cohort have been under-explored as a distinct body, yet a study of their experiences of the war and the ways in which they - and the Conservative Party - represented those experiences to the voting public reveals much about the political culture of Interwar Britain and the use of the Great War as political capital...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032925345
• ISBN13: 9781032925349
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages