TY  - BOOK
AU  - MACKENZIE S P
TI  - Home guard: a military and political history
SN  - 0192853317 (pbk.)
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - HOME GUARD
KW  -  MILITARY
KW  -  ARMY
N2  - 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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