Bøker av S. P. (Assistant Professor of History MacKenzie

The first scholarly examination of education in current affairs and citizenship within the British Army in the 20th century. It analyses the thinking which lay behind the establishment of army education schemes, their function and their effects and explores the controversial question of the part it may have played in Labour's 1945 election victory.

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 and readable history of the Home Guard offers a new perspective on the men who took up the challenge. The book shows how the Home Guard, often as large as the wartime army, became an astonishingly strong political force in its own right.