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Author Summerfield, Penny, author

Title Contesting home defence : men, women and the Home Guard in the Second World War / Penny Summerfield and Corinna Peniston-Bird
Published Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 307 pages)
Series Cultural history of modern war
Cultural history of modern war.
Contents pt. I. Political challenges -- pt. II. Representations -- pt. III. Personal testimony
Summary Offering a new contribution to debates about the British home front in WWII, this book addresses the way the Home Guard has been remembered in popular culture through examination of key films, as well as TV's Dad's Army. The authors also explore the personal memories of individuals who served in the Home Guard
Analysis British popular memory
Home Guard
Second World War
bombardment
cultural products
home defence
incursion
invasion
masculine identity
military strategy
occupation
personal memory
personal recollections
political discourses
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Great Britain. Home Guard -- Juvenile literature
SUBJECT Great Britain. Home Guard fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Europe -- History.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- People & Places -- Europe.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
War work
Civilförsvar -- Storbritannien -- Andra världskriget.
Hemvärnet -- historia -- England.
Great Britain
Genre/Form Juvenile works
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
Author Peniston-Bird, C. M., author.
LC no. 2011279184
ISBN 9781847791542
1847791549