Civil Defence as a Harbinger of War in France and Britain during the Interwar Period

Dodd, Lindsey and Wiggam, Marc (2011) Civil Defence as a Harbinger of War in France and Britain during the Interwar Period. Synergies Royaume Uni et Irlande (4). pp. 139-150. ISSN 1961-9464

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Abstract

Few harbingers of war presented a more explicit vision of a future conflict than the public campaigns of the civil defence authorities in Britain and France during the later 1930s. In the wake of the Sudeten crisis, civil defence preparations in both countries assumed a level of earnestness not seen since the end of the First World War. However, popular reaction to civil defence preparations ranged from indifference to fear. Our article examines and contrasts French and British civil defence planning, its portrayal in the public output of the civil defence authorities, and its reception by the population. It considers the quality of the threat each nation faced, and how successfully the authorities communicated the facts of civil defence preparation, asking whether the vacuum created in the interwar years by a lack of official discourse on civil defence challenged or hindered the efforts of the authorities.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DC France
Schools:	School of Music, Humanities and Media
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Graham Stone
Date Deposited:	04 Sep 2012 10:58
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2012 10:44
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/14679

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