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Author Mackenzie, S. P

Title The home guard : a military and political history / S.P. Mackenzie
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 262 pages) : illustrations
Summary MacKenzie's detailed history of the Home Guard offers a new perspective on the men who took up the challenge. Despite its popular image of old men and teenagers playing soldiers, the Home Guard, often as large as the wartime army, became an astonishingly strong political force in its own right
Analysis World War 2 Military forces
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index
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Subject Great Britain. Home Guard -- History
SUBJECT Great Britain. Home Guard. fast (OCoLC)fst00613921
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Great Britain.
Militia.
Politics and government
War work.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History, Military -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056842
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056915
Great Britain -- Militia -- History
Subject Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Military history.
Form Electronic book
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