1919 : Britain's year of revolution
Webb, Simon, (Historian)2016
Book
Total copies: 2
On the August Bank Holiday 1919, the government dispatched warships to Liverpool in an overwhelming show of force. Thousands of troops, backed by tanks, had been trying without success to suppress disorder on the streets. Earlier that year in London, 1000 soldiers had marched on Downing Street, before being disarmed by a battalion of the Grenadier Guards loyal to the government. In Glasgow, artillery and tanks were positioned in the centre of the city to deter what the Secretary of State for Scotland described as a 'Bolshevik uprising'. Industrial unrest and mutiny in the armed forces combined together to produce the fear that Britain was facing the same kind of situation which had led to the Russian Revolution. This book describes the sequence of events which looked as though they might be the precursor to a revolution along the lines of those sweeping across Europe at that time.
Main title:
1919 : Britain's year of revolution / Simon Webb.
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Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2016.
Collation:
v, 170 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781473862869 (hbk)1473862868 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.083 WEB941.083
LC class:
DA577
Language:
English
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BRN:
307695