The Home Guard: A Military and Political History (Oxford Readers)

The Home Guard: A Military and Political History (Oxford Readers)

by S. P. MacKenzie (Author)

Synopsis

Today we laugh at Dad's Army , but in 1940 the threat of a German invasion of Britain was a very real one. S. P. 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. Quite literally the people in arms, it proved able to exert a good deal of influence on policy. The threat of invasion receded and the Home Guard was never called upon to fulfil its military role, though there was a brief attempt to resurrect it in the 1950s. Since then it has been largely neglected by military historians and there have been few serious examinations of the part it played in the Home Front.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 276
Edition: New
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 07 Nov 1996

ISBN 10: 0192853317
ISBN 13: 9780192853318

Media Reviews
MacKenzie's study is well-written and thoroughly researched. --The State; Columbia, South Carolina
Author Bio
S. P. MacKenzie is Assistant Professor of History, University of South Carolina, Columbia. His book The Politics of Military Morale: Current-Affair and Citizenship Education in the British Army 1914-1950 (OHM, 1992) won the Templer Medal for the best contribution to military history in 1992