God and the British Soldier: Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars

by Michael Snape

Drawing on a wealth of new material from military, ecclesiastical and secular civilian archives, Michael Snape presents a study of the experience of the officers and men of Britain's vast citizen armies, and also of the numerous religious agencies which ministered to them.

Historians of the First and Second World Wars have consistently underestimated the importance of religion in Britain during the war years, but this book shows that religion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415334527
• ISBN13: 9780415334525
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.2"