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 The Northamptonshire Home Guard 1940 1945 written by B. G. Holloway and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Northamptonshire Battalion Home Guard 1940 1944 written by Leslie Edwin Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1946* with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the 12th Northamptonshire Battalion Home Guard 1940 1944 written by L. E. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Era of World War II written by Louise A. Arnold-Friend and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Special Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Special Bibliographic Series written by US Army Military History Research Collection and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Very British Experience written by Andrew Stewart and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In terms of the Second World War and Britain's wartime strategy three elements deserve close scrutiny: the paramount importance of defending the British mainland and its population; the challenges of building and maintaining coalitions and alliances; and the central role the African continent assumed in all British strategic planning. A concluding essay reflects upon the degree to which in the face of an often uncertain and unconvincing approach these critical themes underpinned the British experience of the conflict. Topics addressed include 1940 and the Defence of Britain; relations with the United States; the British Empire Air Training Plan; General (Boy) Browning and Operation Market Garden; the recall of General Alan Cunningham from Libya in 1941; plans for defending the Royal Family; Exercise Genesis, which turned west London into a battleground for a day in May 1942; and the role of the Eastern Fleet off Africa. Andrew Stewart provides a compelling chapter on the loss of the Tobruk garrison in June 1942 -- one of the worst military disasters suffered by the British Empire during the Second World War. The essay on Tobruk demonstrates how all three defining elements of wartime experience converged: the loss of public confidence about how the war was being conducted; its impact on the relationship with the Union of South Africa, a key partner in the Dominion wartime coalition; and the absolute necessity that existed for deep strategic planning on the African continent -- subsequently to be realised at the final battle at El Alamein.

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 Churchill s Army written by Stephen Bull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill, Britain's iconic war time Prime Minister, is inextricably linked with the victorious British Army of 1939 to 1945. Yet hindsight, propaganda, and the imperative of the defeat of Hitler and Imperial Japan, have led to a tendency to oversimplify the image of Churchill the war leader, and 'his' Army. For whilst Churchill was undeniably a towering statesman, his relations with both the Army and War Office were ambiguous and altered considerably not only with the progress of the Second World War, but over decades. In this comprehensive book, Stephen Bull examines every aspect of the British Army during the Second World War, and considers in detail the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation that was tested to its limits on many fronts but made an immense contribution to the successful Allied outcome. The book explores the structure of military power from the men who ran it, the Generals to the detail of the regiments they commanded. It looks at the uniforms the soldiers wore and the badges and insignia they bore on their uniforms. The weaponry Churchill's army used is discussed in detail, from small arms including rifles, bayonets, grenades, carbines and machine guns to the massed firepower of the artillery along with the increasing sophistication of tanks and other military vehicles during the period. Finally the role of auxiliary and special forces and their contribution to the campaign is considered. The comprehensive text is enhanced by more than 200 contemporary photographs.

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 The Real Dad s Army written by Norman Longmate and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 202 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.

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 Dad s Army written by David Carroll and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immortalised by ' Dad's Army' - this is the true story of the men who manned the British frontline.

Download or read book The Home Guard written by David Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text which uses over 200 photographs to bring to life the Home Guard during a unique period in British history. The images recall the activities of the auxiliary force otherwise known as 'Dad's Arm'. The book draws on the early days of the Local Defence Volunteers from the moment when Anthony Eden broadcast an appeal, to the official stand-down of the Home Guard n 1944. This title evokes memories of World War II in a domestic setting and asserts life on the Home Front from the perspective of those left behind to defend it.

Download or read book Time to Kill written by Paul Addison and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 50 years since the end of the Second World War, much has been written about the men at the top, but little attention has been given to what soldiering was like for the 'dog-face' and 'squaddy', the NCO's and junior officers. Redressing the balance, this original and powerful book explores the conditions in which the soldiers of many different countries lived and died, as well as their hopes and fears, and their experience of battle. John Erickson, John Keegan, Theodore Wilson and Omer Bartov are among the distinguished cast of historians whose subjects range from GIs in Europe to Indian troops in North Africa, and from the comic overtones of Dad's Army in Britain to the grim earnest of the war on the eastern front, where Russian woman fought as full combatants.