Contesting home defence: Men, women and the Home Guard in the Second World War (Cultural History of Modern War) - Tapa dura

Peniston-Bird, Corinna; Summerfield, Penny

 
9780719062018: Contesting home defence: Men, women and the Home Guard in the Second World War (Cultural History of Modern War)
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ISBN 10: 0719062012 ISBN 13: 9780719062018
Editorial: Manchester University Press, 2007

Sinopsis

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.

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Penny Summerfield is Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester

Penny Summerfield is Professor of Women's History at Manchester University



Corinna Peniston-Bird is Lecturer in History at the University of Lancaster

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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'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.

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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 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.

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Editorial
Manchester University Press
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0719062012
ISBN 13 
9780719062018
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
326
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