Contesting home defence

Contesting home defenceContesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of national unity. It scrutinises the Home Guards reputation and explores whether this peoples army was a site of social cohesion or of dissension by assessing the competing claims made for it at the

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