Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War by Corinna Peniston-Bird, Penny Summerfield

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

Cultural History of Modern War

Corinna Peniston-Bird, Penny Summerfield

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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 symb...

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