Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War
Author:   Penny Summerfield ,  Corinna Peniston-Bird (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History) ,  Bertrand Taithe ,  Peter Gatrell
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
ISBN:  

9780719062018


Pages:   328
Publication Date:   31 March 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in 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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Author:   Penny Summerfield ,  Corinna Peniston-Bird (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History) ,  Bertrand Taithe ,  Peter Gatrell
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9780719062018


ISBN 10:   0719062012
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   31 March 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Penny Summerfield is Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester. Corinna Peniston-Bird is Lecturer in History at the University of Lancaster

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