Description
| Product ID: | 9781138565241 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in First World War History |
| Title: | Policing the Home Front 1914-1918 |
| Subtitle: | The control of the British population at war |
| Authors: | Author: Mary Fraser |
| Page Count: | 264 |
| Subjects: | First World War, First World War, Police and security services, Crime and criminology, Warfare and defence, Police & security services, Crime & criminology, Warfare & defence, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book will show the detail and challenges of police work during the First World War and how this impacted on ordinary people’s daily lives. This study is the first to utilise The Police Review and Parade Gossip as a central archival source, and offers a new and intimate perspective on policing during the Great War. The civilian police during the First World War in Great Britain were central to the control of the population at home. This book will show the detail and challenges of police work during the First World War and how this impacted on ordinary people’s daily lives. The aim is to tell the story of the police as they saw themselves through the pages of their best-known journal, The Police Review and Parade Gossip, in addition to a wide range of other published, archival and private sources.
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| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-12-03 |