Contesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of national unity. It scrutinises the Home Guard's reputation and explores whether this 'people's army' was a site of social cohesion or of dissension by assessing the competing claims made for it at the time.
It then examines the way it was represented during the war and has been since, notably in Dad's Army, and discusses the memories of men and women who served in it. The book makes a significant and original contribution to debates concerning the British home front and introduces fresh ways of understanding the Second World War.
| ISBN: | 9780719062025 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 2007 |
| Author: | Penny Summerfield, C M PenistonBird |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 307 pages |
| Series: | Cultural History of Modern War |
| Genres: |
First World War European history |
Contesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of national unity. It scrutinises the Home Guard's reputation and explores whether this 'people's army' was a site of social cohesion or of dissension by assessing the competing claims made for it at the time.
Contesting Home Defence features in the following genres: First World War, European history
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Contesting Home Defence was written by Penny Summerfield, C M PenistonBird and published by Manchester University Press
Contesting Home Defence has 307 pages
Yes it is part of Cultural History of Modern War series
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