The extraordinarily popular British television program "Dad's Army" suggests that Britain's Home Guard during the Second World War was home to charming incompetence and lighthearted buffoonery. In 1940, however, the threat of a German invasion of Britain appeared very real. 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, ...
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The extraordinarily popular British television program "Dad's Army" suggests that Britain's Home Guard during the Second World War was home to charming incompetence and lighthearted buffoonery. In 1940, however, the threat of a German invasion of Britain appeared very real. 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 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 fills that gap.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 300grams, ISBN: 9780192853318.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. xiv, 262 p. : ill.; 25 cm. LCCN 94043350 Type of material Book Personal name Mackenzie, S. P. Main title The Home Guard: a military and political history / S.P. Mackenzie. Published/Created Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Description xiv, 262 p. : ill.; 25 cm. ISBN 0198205775 (acid-free paper) LC classification DA69. M33 1995 LC Subjects Great Britain. Home Guard--History. World War, 1939-1945--War work--Great Britain. Great Britain--History, Military--20th century. Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century. Great Britain--Militia--History. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-253) and index. Dewey class no. 941.084 Geographic area code e-uk---
