Home guard: a military and political history
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996
- 262p.
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.