Contesting home defence
Corinna (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History) Peniston-Bird, Penny Summerfield
Manchester University Press, 2007
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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
- ISBN-13
- 9780719062025
- ISBN-10
- 0719062020
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Year
- 2007
- Publication date
- 2007-03-31
- Pages
- 328
- Dimensions
- 216x139x22
- Weight
- 416