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The Home Guard [electronic resource] : a military and political history / S.P. Mackenzie.
By: Mackenzie, S. P
.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 262 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill., facsims., ports.ISBN: 9780191676789 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Great Britain. Home Guard -- History | World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- History, Military -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Militia -- History -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198205777DDC classification: 941.084 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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.
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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.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.