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Contesting Home Defense: Men, Women, and the Home Guard in the Second World War (Cultural History of Modern war)
Contesting Home Defense Men Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War - Cultural History of Modern war
Author: Penny Summerfield, Corinna Peniston-Bird
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. The book makes a significant and original contribution to debates conc...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780719062018
ISBN-10: 0719062012
Publication Date: 6/15/2007
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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