Contesting Home Defense: Men, Women, and the Home Guard in the Second World War by Penny Summerfield
Contesting Home Defense: Men, Women, and the Home Guard in the Second World War
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Penny Summerfield
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Contesting Home Defense: Men, Women, and the Home Guard in the Second World War

Cultural History of Modern War

Penny Summerfield with Corinna Peniston-Bird

320 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history medium-paced
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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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