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Creating the People's War - Civil Defence Communities in Second World War Britain (Hardcover)
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Creating the People's War - Civil Defence Communities in Second World War Britain (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural History of Modern War
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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. -- .
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