| Description |
1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
Why has the 'people's war' been such a durable and attractive myth? 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. 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. In their social groups volunteers wrote themselves into the 'people's war' and invested it with meaning, creating national identity from the bottom up. Community was both central to these representations and vital for their production. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Civil defense -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century. |
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Civil defense |
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Social aspects |
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Social conditions |
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Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP |
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World War (1939-1945) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbhpRH9XvjbDFXtxhb |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1526162415 9781526162410 (OCoLC)1287924157 |
| ISBN |
9781526162427 (electronic bk.) |
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1526162423 (electronic bk.) |
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9781526162403 (electronic bk.) |
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1526162407 (electronic bk.) |
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1526162415 |
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9781526162410 |
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