Penny Summerfield, Corinna Peniston-Bird

Contesting home defence (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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's army' was a site of social cohesion or of dissension by assessing the competing claims made for it at the time. It then examines the way it was represented during the war and has been since, notably in Dad's Army, and discusses the memories of men and women who served in it. The book makes a significant and original contribution to debates concerning the British home front and introduces fresh ways of understanding the Second World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847791542
• Artikelnr.: 54360650

Autorenporträt

Penny Summerfield, Corinna Peniston-Bird

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