The home guard
a military and political history
by S. P. Mackenzie
Today we laugh at 'Dad's Army', but in 1940 the threat of a German invasion of Britain appeared very real. S. P. MacKenzie's detailed and readable 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.
Quite literally the people in arms, it proved able to exert a good deal of influence on policy. The Home Guard was never called upon to fulfil its military role, though there was a brief attempt to resurrect it in the 1950s. Since then it has been largely neglected by military historians and there have been few serious examinations of the part it played in the Home Front.
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Great Britain, Great Britain. Home Guard, History, History, Military, Military History, Militia, Politics and government, War work, World War, 1939-1945, Great britain, history, Great britain, history, military, Great britain, politics and government, 20th century, World war, 1939-1945, war work, Great britain, home guardPlaces
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The home guard: a military and political history
1996, Oxford Univesity Press
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The home guard: a military and political history
1995, Oxford University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-253) and index.
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