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Home guard: a military and political history

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996Description: 262pISBN:
  • 0192853317 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: The book is essentially an evocation of what might be termed the home guard self-image or ethos the long reflective might watches in the countryside the old men doing their bit, the tendency the improvise and muddle through. It is an attempt at a definitive history of home guard particularly in the social context. It sets out to explain and analyse the origins, nature and significance of the home guard as a military and a political phenomenon.
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The book is essentially an evocation of what might be termed the home guard self-image or ethos the long reflective might watches in the countryside the old men doing their bit, the tendency the improvise and muddle through. It is an attempt at a definitive history of home guard particularly in the social context. It sets out to explain and analyse the origins, nature and significance of the home guard as a military and a political phenomenon.

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