Penny Summerfield, Corinna Peniston-Bird (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Histo

Contesting Home Defence

Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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 symbols of national unity. It scrutinises the Home Guard's reputation and explores whether this 'people

Produktdetails

• Cultural History of Modern War
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780719062025
• ISBN-10: 0719062020
• Artikelnr.: 22740681

Autorenporträt

Penny Summerfield is Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester Penny Summerfield is Professor of Women's History at Manchester University

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations List of abbreviations Preface and acknowledgements 1.
Introduction: contested histories PART ONE: POLITICAL CHALLENGES 2. The
People's Army: competing visions of the Home Guard 3. Women, weapons and
home defence PART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS 4. The Home Guard in wartime popular
culture 5. Representations of women and home defence 6. Dad's Army and Home
Guard history PART THREE: PERSONAL TESTIMONY 7. Men's memories of the Home
Guard 8. Women, memory and home defence 9. Conclusion Appendix 1 Personal
Testimony: Women Appendix 2 Personal Testimony: Men Bibliography