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    1919: Britain's Year of Revolution
    1919: Britain's Year of Revolution
    1919: Britain's Year of Revolution
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    1919: Britain's Year of Revolution

    By Simon Webb

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    The little-known true story of rioting and rebellion among British veterans and workers after the end of World War I.
     
    On the August Bank Holiday of 1919, the government in London dispatched warships to the northern city of 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, a thousand soldiers had marched on Downing Street before being disarmed by a battalion of the Grenadier Guards loyal to the government. In Luton that summer, the town hall was burned down by rioters before the army was brought in to restore order, and in Glasgow, artillery and tanks were positioned in the center 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 to produce the fear that Britain was facing, the same kind of situation which had led to the Russian Revolution two years earlier. Drawing chiefly upon contemporary sources, 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. To some observers, it seemed only a matter of time before Britain transformed itself from a constitutional monarchy into a Soviet Republic.
     
    “An extraordinary tale.” —Battlefield
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 30, 2016
    ISBN9781473862883
    1919: Britain's Year of Revolution
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    Simon Webb

    Simon Webb is the author of a number of non-fiction books, ranging from academic works on education to popular history. He works as a consultant on the subject of capital punishment to television companies and filmmakers and also writes for various magazines and newspapers; including the Times Educational Supplement, Daily Telegraph and the Guardian.

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