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Book Synopsis The History of the Wiltshire Home Guard 1940 - 45 by : E. a. MacKay
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:
Book Synopsis The History of the Wiltshire Home Guard by : E. A. Mackay
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:
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.
Book Synopsis Look, Duck and Vanish by : Roger Day
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:
Book Synopsis History of the Cheshire Home Guard by : Anon
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.
Book Synopsis The History of the 45th Warwickshire (B'Ham) Battalion Home Guard by : Anon
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 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:
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 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Home Guard was formed in May 1940, when the dark clouds of war rolled over Britain and the nation stood alone, threatened with a Nazi invasion. Within six weeks of a radio appeal for a new civilian army to guard the Home Front, a staggering 1.5 million men had enrolled for service, covering every city, town and village in the country. Despite initial deficiencies in the provision of training and equipment, the Home Guard later developed into a cohesive force and one of impressive diversity. David Carroll draws on the personal accounts of those men and eventually women who served, to reveal what it was really like to spend long nights on duty watching for the disguised enemy parachutists to drop on the fields of Britain. He conveys the fighting spirit of the men while examining the Home Guard's contribution to the war effort. Dad's Army is a comprehensive account of the Home Guard - from the early disorganised days of May 1940 until 'Stand Down' at the close of 1944, by which time they had become a force to be reckoned with.
Book Synopsis The Story of the First Berkshire (Abingdon) Battalion Home Guard by : None
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:
Book Synopsis For Fuhrer & Fatherland by : Roderick Normann
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 144 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?
Book Synopsis An Illustrated History of the Home Guard by : Arthur Cook
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 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.
Book Synopsis History of the Cheshire Home Guard from L D V Formation to Stand-down, 1940-1944 by :
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 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:
Book Synopsis Britain's Final Defence by : Dale Clarke
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 260 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.
Book Synopsis Wiltshire Home Guard, A Company 4th Battalion, 1940-1944 by :
Download or read book Wiltshire Home Guard, A Company 4th Battalion, 1940-1944 written by and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Britain's Home Guard by : John Brophy
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: