Creating the Peoples War: Civil Defence Communities in Second World War Britain Hammett Jessica
Creating the Peoples War: Civil Defence Communities in Second World War Britain Hammett Jessica Why has the 'people's war' been such a durable and attractive myth? This book shows how local…
Specifikacia Creating the Peoples War: Civil Defence Communities in Second World War Britain Hammett Jessica
Creating the Peoples War: Civil Defence Communities in Second World War Britain Hammett Jessica
Why has the 'people's war' been such a durable and attractive myth? This book shows how local communities of civil defence personnel co-developed narratives about the value of their work which challenged hierarchies of war service. Creating the people's war examines how civil defence personnel engaged with this narrative during the war and in the following decades to answer this question.Civil defence was the most significant voluntary organisation of the Second World War, involving millions of men and women of every class, generation and locality in Britain.
Community was both central to these representations and vital for their In their social groups volunteers wrote themselves into the 'people's war' and invested it with meaning, creating national identity from the bottom up.
The Second World War
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