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Alwyn Turner – All In It Together: England in the Early 21st Century

Alwyn Turner – Profile Books – £20 https://media.blubrry.com/timhaighreadsbooks/bookspodcast.com/MP3s/green-shoot_alwynturner-allinittogether_20210627.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Embed

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Alwyn W turner – The Last Post

No Man’s Land is already littered with books on the Great War, and there will be many more hurled into the fray, but not many of them will be as original as this thoughtful and engaging treatment by the historian Alwyn W Turner. Ostensibly a history of the bugle call that came to symbolise the honour of a military death, it ranges very much more widely, taking in all the main symbols of remembrance (all associated with the First War rather than the Second) and serves also as a history of the development of social attitudes towards the soldier, and of public opinion in locating the significance of war. http://media.blubrry.com/timhaighreadsbooks/www.bookspodcast.com/MP3s/green-shoot_thebookspodcast_alwynturner-thelastpost.mp3Podcast: … Continue reading

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