Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook413 pages5 hours
Tommy This an' Tommy That: The military covenant
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
There is nothing new about the military covenant, a freshly minted term for something that's been around for as long as soldiering itself. 'Tommy' may have to make the ultimate sacrifice for his country. But what will his country do for him? Over centuries the covenant has been variously honoured and ignored. Confronted daily with flag-draped coffins, shameful stories of inadequate kit and shocking images of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan: what exactly are we doing to honour those who sacrifice all in the service of their country? In Tommy This an' Tommy That Andrew Murrison uses his perspective as a senior Service doctor and frontline politician to set the events of the past ten years in historical context. He charts the ways in which societal and political changes have impacted on the wellbeing of uniformed men and women, and the nation's changing sense of obligation towards the military. Crucially he asks what the future holds for the military covenant.
Unavailable
Related to Tommy This an' Tommy That
Related ebooks
Tommy This an' Tommy That: The military covenant Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBritain's Last Tommies: Final Memories from Soldiers of the 1914–18 War—In Their Own Words Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beneath the Restless Wave: Memoirs of a Cold War Submariner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Keeping the Home Fires Burning: Entertaining the Troops at Home and Abroad During the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTorquay in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSunk by Stukas, Survived at Salerno: The Memoirs of Captain Tony McCrum RN Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Faces of the Home Front, 1939–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemories Are Forever Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSoldier from the Wars Returning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hopes of Victory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReported Missing in the Great War: 100 Years of Searching for the Truth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLaugh or Cry: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914–1918 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTommy Goes to War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Battle of Britain 1940: The Finest Hour's Human Cost Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFootsloggers: An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ulster Tales: A Tribute to Those Who Served, 1969–2000 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVeterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTake These Men: Tank Warfare with the Desert Rats Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Neville Chamberlain's Legacy: Hitler, Munich and the Path to War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSubmarine and Anti-submarine: ''The foe that comes with fearless eyes'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWith the British Army on the Somme: Memoirs from the Trenches Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings34 Men Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Force Like No Other 3: The Last Shift: The final selection of real stories from the RUC men and women who policed the Troubles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOperation Market Garden: The Legend of the Waal Crossing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Best Little Stories from World War II: More than 100 true stories (History Book for Adults) Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The War of the Motor Gun Boats: One Man's Personal War at Sea with the Coastal Forces, 1943–1945 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Civil Service Rifles in the Great War: 'All Bloody Gentlemen' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIrishmen in the Great War: Reports from the Front 1914 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBurning Steel: A Tank Regiment at War, 1939-45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA View from the Chair: A Festival and a Theatre that helped to shape a city Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Wars & Military For You
Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The History of the Peloponnesian War: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of The 33 Strategies of War: by Robert Greene - A Comprehensive Summary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/577 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Tommy This an' Tommy That
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews