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Author : E. a. MacKay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783311583
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (115 download)
Download or read book The History of the Wiltshire Home Guard 1940 - 45 written by E. a. MacKay and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. A. Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The History of the Wiltshire Home Guard written by E. A. Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. P. Mackenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192853318
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (533 download)
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.
Author : Dale Clarke
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969709
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Britain's Final Defence written by Dale Clarke and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known affectionately as 'Dad's Army', the Home Guard was Britain's very serious attempt to protect our shores from invasion by Nazi Germany in the Second World War. In the 'Spitfire summer' of 1940, all that the 1 million unpaid, untrained part-timers of the Local Defence Volunteers (as the organisation was originally called) wanted was a service rifle for each man, but even that was too much for a country threatened by defeat to provide. Britain's Final Defence is the first book to explore the efforts made to arm the home defence force between 1940 and 1944 and describe the full range of weaponry available for Britain's last stand against invading Axis forces.
Author : David Carroll
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752499890
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roderick Normann
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752489763
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book For Fuhrer & Fatherland written by Roderick Normann and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Fuhrer and Fatherland is the extraordinary story of how British and American Intelligence thwarted a wartime plan for a daring mass break-out of German prisoners-of-war from the PoW camp at Devizes in Wiltshire, led by a hard core of SS troops. As December 1944 drew to a close, trained US interrogators stumbled on a plan so fantastic in concept that it was hard to take seriously. The Interrogation Centre operatives broke the wills of the prisoners involved and got to the bottom of the story. With their escape plan in tatters, the SS took their revenge and 'tried' and murdered one of their fellow prisoners, who was accused of betraying the Fuhrer. Despite the SS code of silence, those involved were brought to justice and hanged at Pentonville Prison in October 1945. In this book, the author asks the questions: Why was Devizes Camp so woefully unprepared for a possible break-out? Why were the SS allowed to continue their reign of terror on British soil? Why did the Government of the day try to cover up the events?
Author : US Army Military History Research Collection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
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:
Author : Louise A. Arnold-Friend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
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:
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Day
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953660148
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Look, Duck and Vanish written by Roger Day and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783311736
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book History of the Cheshire Home Guard written by Anon and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the Home Guard in Cheshire explains the force's organisation, tactics, weaponry offering a penetrating insight into a legendary military force which never needed to prove its skills in action.
Author : Anon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783312009
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
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.
Author : None
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ISBN 13 : 9781783311606
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Story of the First Berkshire (Abingdon) Battalion Home Guard written by None and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Graves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Home Guard of Britain written by Charles Graves and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bog med rapporter fra det engelske hjemmeværn, den såkaldte "Home Guard", under den 2. Verdenskrig 1939-45.
Author : Lisa Lewis
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786832437
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Performing Wales written by Lisa Lewis and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses ideas from performance studies to examine Welsh culture as performance. Focusing on three aspects central to the investigation – notions of people, memory and place, all of which are central to definitions of Welsh cultural performance – the book explores these aspects in relation to specific case studies taken from the museum, from heritage, festival, and theatre.
