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Men, women and the Home Guard in the Second World War
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ISBN-13:
9781847791542
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
Web PDF
Seiten:
328
Autor:
Penny Summerfield
eBook Format:
PDF
eBook-Typ:
Reflowable Web PDF
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of illustrationsList of abbreviationsPreface and acknowledgements1. Introduction: contested historiesPART ONE: POLITICAL CHALLENGES2. The Peoples Army: competing visions of the Home Guard3. Women, weapons and home defencePART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS4. The Home Guard in wartime popular culture5. Representations of women and home defence6. Dad's Army and Home Guard historyPART THREE: PERSONAL TESTIMONY7. Mens memories of the Home Guard8. Women, memory and home defence9. ConclusionAppendix 1 Personal Testimony: WomenAppendix 2 Personal Testimony: MenBibliography
Beschreibung
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 Guards reputation and explores whether this peoples 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 Dads 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.
Autor
Corinna Peniston-Bird is Lecturer in History at the University of Lancaster
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Contesting home defence von Penny Summerfield - mit der ISBN: 9781847791542
HISTORY / Military / World War II; British popular memory; Home Guard; Second World War; bombardment; cultural products; home defence; incursion; invasion; masculine identity; military strategy; occupation; personal memory; personal recollections; political discourses, Online-Buchhandlung
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