The doughboy moved in
Laura Beers: Multicultural Britain, 7 March 2019
Mixing It: Diversity in World War Two Britain
by Wendy Webster.
Oxford, 336 pp., £26, March 2018,978 0 19 873576 2 Show More
by Wendy Webster.
Oxford, 336 pp., £26, March 2018,
Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain
by Jordanna Bailkin.
Oxford, 304 pp., £30, July 2018,978 0 19 881421 4 Show More
by Jordanna Bailkin.
Oxford, 304 pp., £30, July 2018,
“... first in Ireland and then in Wiltshire, before crossing to France on D-Day. He was part of what Wendy Webster terms ‘the great proposition’, a phrase taken from the opening scenes of The True Glory, an Anglo-American war documentary produced in 1945. ‘Funny thing,’ an American voice pronounces. ‘On the way over you felt like you were the ... ”
