Download or read book Histories of Various Units of the Great Britain Home Guard 1940 1945 written by Great Britain. Home Guard and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Home Guard written by S. P. Mackenzie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinarily popular British television program "Dad's Army" suggests that Britain's Home Guard during the Second World War was home to charming incompetence and lighthearted buffoonery. In 1940, however, the threat of a German invasion of Britain appeared very real. S. P. MacKenzie's detailed and readable history of the Home Guard offers a new perspective on the men who took up the challenge. Despite its popular image of old men and teenagers playing soldiers, the Home Guard, often as large as the wartime army, became an astonishingly strong political force in its own right. Quite literally the people in arms, it proved able to exert a good deal of influence on policy. The Home Guard was never called upon to fulfil its military role, though there was a brief attempt to resurrect it in the 1950s. Since then it has been largely neglected by military historians and there have been few serious examinations of the part it played in the Home Front. This book fills that gap.
Download or read book Britain s Home Guard written by John Brophy and published by London : Harrap. This book was released on 1945 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Illustrated History of the Home Guard written by Arthur Cook and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Cook presents the history of the Home Guard, the reserve army of old men and boys raised during the Second World War to fight the Nazi threat.
Download or read book The Home Guard in Hertfordshire 1940 1945 written by John David Sainsbury and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this very detailed account of the Hertfordshire Home Guard, the local picture is set against the background of national developments. Over 130 illustrations also provide a fascinating pictorial history of the force in Hertfordshire. This book shows that there was much more to the Home Guard than the BBC's Dad's Army would have us believe.
Download or read book History of the Cheshire Home Guard from L D V Formation to Stand down 1940 1944 written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the 45th Warwickshire B Ham Battalion Home Guard written by Anon and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Home Guard, familiar to us all from the antics of Dad's Army on the TV, in fact performed a deadly serious role - guarding infrastructure and communications, and releasing the regular Army for more front-line work. This is one of the Home Guard's Unit histories, giving a detailed account of their history - from the Government's first appeal for volunteers onwards. The Home Guard's history stretched from the early anxious days in the summer of 1940 when a German invasion was hourly expected to the preparations for D-Day when the boot was on the Allied foot. It is a story of amateurism transformed into increasing sophistication and better weaponry; and a professional and patriotic dedication to often humdrum duty that united Great War veterans with youths awaiting the call-up to the regular forces. When they were finally disbanded in November 1944 the Home Guard deserved the thanks of a grateful nation that they had truly served and helped to save.
Download or read book The Northamptonshire Home Guard 1940 1945 written by B. G. Holloway and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contesting Home Defense written by Penny Summerfield and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contesting Home Defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of national unity. The book makes a significant and original contribution to debates concerning the British home front and introduces fresh ways of understanding the Second World War.
Download or read book Britain s Final Defence written by Dale Clarke and published by History Press. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First authoritative study of efforts to arm Britain's World War II Home Guard
Download or read book Histories of Various Units of the British Army and the Royal Airforce During World War II written by Great Britain. Army and published by . This book was released on 1942* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the 5th Bideford Battalion Devon Home Guard 1940 1945 written by D. C. Crombie and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 9th Hertfordshire Battalion Home Guard written by D. H. Neale and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Real Dad s Army written by Norman Longmate and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of the Home Guard from its creation in May 1940 to the end of the Second World War. The enduring popularity of the BBC TV series Dad's Army has focused attention on one of the strangest and least military armies ever formed - The British Home Guard. What started as an improvised band of volunteers had grown by 1942 into a conscripted, disciplined and well-equipped force with a strength of nearly two million men. Norman Longmate, an ex-member of the Home Guard and an authority on wartime Britain, has collected together a wealth of hilarious anecdotes as well as all the unlikely facts to produce the first popular history of the Home Guard to be written since the war.
Download or read book The People s Army written by Brian D. Osborne and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on contemporary archive materials and personal accounts, Brian Osborne examines the human story of the Home Guard in Scotland and the impact that this remarkable organization had on society and on those that became involved with it. The Home Guard, and its forerunner the Local Defence Volunteers, was genuinely a 'people's army' with its own ethos, character and political influence. At its peak nearly 2 million men were enrolled, trained and served without pay in their own time and, usually, after a full day's work at the civilian occupation. The Home Guard played a vital part in the defense of the country from 1940-1944, but despite its significance the story of the Home Guard in Scotland has never before been fully told - from Shetland to Galloway, Scottish Home Guardsmen fulfilled a wide range of roles far beyond the popular image of the 'Dad's Army' of general service infantry battalions. Horseback patrols in the Borders, armored trains, anti-aircraft gunners at factories throughout Scotland, anti-aircraft rocket batteries from Aberdeen to Greenock all saw the Home Guard actively engaged in the national struggle.
Download or read book History of the Cheshire Home Guard from L D V Formation to Stand down 1940 1944 With Plates Including Portraits and an Endpaper Map written by Great Britain. - Army. - Local Defence Volunteers, afterwards Home Guard. - Cheshire and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Search of the Real Dad s Army written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
