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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 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780192853318
eBay Product ID (ePID)87711583
Product Key Features
Number of Pages276 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Home Guard: a Military and Political History
Publication Year1996
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
AuthorS. P. Mackenzie
SeriesOxford Readers
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height190 mm
Item Weight250 g
Item Width120 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorS. P. Mackenzie
