Mackenzie, S. P.

The Home Guard a military and political history / [electronic resource] : S.P. Mackenzie. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995. - 1 online resource (xiv, 262 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill., facsims., ports.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780191676789 (ebook) : No price


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 century.

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