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.
Autorentext
Autorentext
Jessica Hammett
Titel
Creating the people's war
Untertitel
Civil defence communities in Second World War Britain
Autor
EAN
9781526162403
Format
E-Book (epub)
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Veröffentlichung
02.08.2022
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
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1.57 MB
Anzahl Seiten
272
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