Home Guard

Name: Home Guard
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198205777
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A Military and Political History

Autor: S. P. MacKenzie

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Today we laugh at 'Dad's Army', but in 1940 the threat of a German invasion of Britain was a very re...

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Autor

S. P. MacKenzie

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1995

Pagini

276

EAN

9780198205777

ISBN

0198205775

Enbook ID

04523107

Editura

Oxford University Press

Greutate

685

Dimensiuni

162 x 242 x 27

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Today we laugh at 'Dad's Army', but in 1940 the threat of a German invasion of Britain was a very real one. 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 threat of invasion receded and 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. This book, both entertaining and scholarly, fills that gap.

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