The Second World War prompted the recruitment and training of British soldiers on a scale never seen since. Physical training, sports, recreational games and bayonet fighting training all fell under the instruction of what became the Army Physical Training Corps in 1940, a unit that had already proved vital in creating and maintaining fitness and battle-readiness among recruits in the First World War.
Adam W. Culling, Curator of the Royal Army Physical Training Corps Museum, has collected here a number of training and equipment manuals, books and photographs. Together these provide an insight into how the physical training instructor kept the British soldier Fighting Fit.
- Published
to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Second World War.
- Plenty
of previous success with the ‘Manual’ format, using facsimile material with an
author’s curatorial input
- Has
breakout potential in the fitness area alongside its safe spots in the
nostalgia and WW2 markets
- Author
is the curator of Royal Army Training Corps Museum, so has unbeatable access to
primary materials
- Reviews
in history magazines, national weeklies, national daily and Sunday newspapers,
to include: The Independent and The Sunday Times, THES, and BBC History
Magazine.
