- Paperback: 276 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (7 Nov 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192853317
- ISBN-13: 978-0192853318
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 810,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"MacKenzie's study is well-written and thoroughly researched."--The State; Columbia, South Carolina
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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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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
So little has been published on the Home Guard that provides the necessary detail and analysis for historians and readers who wish to really understand the role of the Home Guard and where they fitted into the war effort in Britain. Overall an excellent book.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Focuses on the political snd social history of the the HG. low on photo's or information. Not an easy read. For me, there's too much of what an MP said in parliament and not enough on what Joe Bloggs of B platoon said. For that reason I suppose it fills a gap.
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