Contesting home defence: Men, women and the Home Guard in the Second World War

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Penny Summerfield Corinna Peniston-Bird (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History)

Contesting home defence

Name: Contesting home defence
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ISBN: 9780719062025

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

Penny Summerfield, Corinna Peniston-Bird (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History), Bertrand Taithe , Peter Gatrell

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Manchester University Press
02 April 2007

British & Irish history; Oral history; Second World War

Series: Cultural History of Modern War

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. -- .

By: Penny Summerfield, Corinna Peniston-Bird (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History)
Series edited by: Bertrand Taithe, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 417g
ISBN: 9780719062025
ISBN 10: 0719062020
Series: Cultural History of Modern War
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 02 April 2007
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Penny Summerfield is Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester. Corinna Peniston-Bird is Lecturer in History at the University of Lancaster