Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War

by Penny Summerfield and Corinna Peniston-Bird

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719062012
• ISBN13: 9780719062018
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.8"