Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Policy-making and Police-makers
2: The New Model Army and the Cold War, 1945-1952
3: Service in the National Service Army
4: BAOR, MELF and Conventional Deterrence: 1948 to 1956
5: Counter-insurgency Operations, 1945 to 1956
6: 'Fire brigades'. Expeditionary Operations, 1945-1956
7: Duncan Sandys and the Creation of the All-Regular Army
8: 'A Good Employer'? The All-Regular Army
9: BAOR's Doctrine for Nuclear War
10: BAOR and the Nuclear Battlefield
11: 'Village Cricket': Expeditionary Operations, 1958-1966
12: The Army and the withdrawal from East of Suez
Conclusion: a Potemkin Army
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

David French was at the University of York and the War Studies Department at King's College London. He spent 27 years at University College London before taking early retirement in 2008 to become a full-time writer. Professor French is the author of six previous books, and has been the recipient of the Arthur Goodzeit Prize of the New York Military Affairs Symposium. He is a three-time winner of the Templer Medal awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research.
He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Strategic Studies, and the Council of the Army Records
Society.

Reviews

This book takes a fresh approach to an overlooked period of our military history. No-one with an interest in the history of the British Army can afford to ignore it.
*Jonathan Eaton, Military History Monthly*

Until now, one of the critical missing parts of post-1945 history has been an up-to-date and substantial account of the British Army, based on how the Army viewed itself, as well as how critics assessed it. David French comprehensively fills this gap with command of detail and a balanced treatment of what he describes as a 'military dinosaur'.
*Wm. Roger Louis, English Historical Review*