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Author : George Mainwaring
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 9781409128212
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (282 download)
Download or read book The Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard Training Manual written by George Mainwaring and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lee Johnson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1612007686
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Home Guard Training Pocket Manual written by Lee Johnson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from the many unofficial “manuals” avidly bought by members of the British Home Guard desperate to prepare for invasion during World War II. How would you clear a stoppage on a Bren Gun while in action? What is the most effective way to clear a wood of enemy forces? How best could you counter a landing by enemy airborne forces in your area? What measure can you take to help ensure accurate rifle fire at night? What qualities should you look for when selecting a patrol commander? Just a few of the practical questions posed—and answered—in the selection of publications included in The Home Guard Training Pocket Manual. Numerous manuals and training pamphlets were privately published during World War II to supplement the slim official Home Guard manual produced by the War Office. Covering everything from patrolling, night fighting, drill and small arms proficiency to the legal powers of the Home Guard, these manuals were welcomed by the men of local Home Guard units keen to do everything possible to prepare for possible invasion—when they would be the first line of defense. This pocket manual collates a selection of material from these fascinating publications, often written by serving soldiers and reprinted multiple times due to demand.
Author : John Langdon-Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Home Guard Training Manual written by John Langdon-Davies and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Langdon-Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873050170
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Home Guard Training Manual written by John Langdon-Davies and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm Atkin
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526745941
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book To the Last Man written by Malcolm Atkin and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study of the UK’s WWII homeland defense service dispels the propaganda and pop culture myths to reveal its true wartime role. In 1940, Britain formed an armed citizen militia to act as the first line of defense in case of Nazi invasion—an essential, if suicidal, mission intended to buy time for the organization of regular forces. Officially, they were the Home Guard. Later, a British sitcom that ran for nearly a decade in the 60s and 70s dubbed them Dad’s Army. That show contributed to a distorted perception of the Home Guard that persists today. But as Malcolm Atkin reveals in this thought-provoking book, the Home Guard’s image was manipulated from its earliest days. Sifting through official documents and contemporary histories, as well as stories, artwork and poetry of the era, and comparing these with postwar films and histories, Atkin explores how the myths of the Home Guard arose and were exploited. He also shows how the strong sense of gallows-humor amongst its volunteers—which fits in with a long tradition of self-deprecating humor in the British army—was taken out of context and became the basis of the TV series. To the Last Man strips back the myths, analyzing how the modern perception has evolved. The result is a new, gritty, and sometimes shocking appreciation of the role that the Home Guard was expected to play in the Second World War.
Author : Juergen Kamm
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137552956
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book British TV Comedies written by Juergen Kamm and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers an overview of British TV comedies, ranging from the beginnings of sitcoms in the 1950s to the current boom of 'Britcoms'. It provides in-depth analyses of major comedies, systematically addressing their generic properties, filmic history, humour politics and cultural impact.
Author : John Langdon-Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (559 download)
Download or read book The Home Guard Training Manual. Based by permission on War Office instruction books. Edited by J. Langdon-Davies ... Revised by General Sir A. Godley. With chapters on rifle, Lewis gun, etc., by Major J. A. Barlow written by John Langdon-Davies and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Oxfordshire Home Guard. Battalion, 3rd (Chipping Norton)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Training Manual written by Great Britain. Oxfordshire Home Guard. Battalion, 3rd (Chipping Norton) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luke Turner
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 147461888X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Men at War written by Luke Turner and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Luke Turner was obsessed with the Second World War. He spent hours watching Sunday war films, poring over stories of derring-do and relishing in birthday trips to air museums. Lying in bed beneath Airfix fighter planes suspended from his ceiling, he would think about the men that might sit in their cockpits, and whether he could ever be one of them. Now, as an adult who has come to terms with a masculine identity and sexuality that is often erased from dominant military narratives, he undertakes a refreshingly honest analysis of his fascination with the war. In Men at War, Turner looks beyond the increasingly retrogressive and jingoistic ideal of a Britain that never was to recognise men of war as creatures of love, fear, hope and desire. From writers, filmmakers, artists and ordinary men - including those in his own family - Turner assembles a broad cast of characters to bring the war to life. There are conscientious objectors, a bisexual Commando, a pacifist poet who flew for Bomber Command, a transgender RAF pilot, a soldier who suffered in Japanese POW camps and later in life became an LGBT+ activist, and those who simply did what they could just to survive and return home to a complicated peace. As the conflict moves beyond living memory and the last veterans leave us, we are in danger of missing the opportunity to gain a true understanding of this rich history. By exploring a wartime experience that embraces sex, lust and the body as much as tactics and weaponry, Turner argues that the only way we can really understand the Second World War is to get to grips with the complexity of the lives and identities of those who fought and endured it.
Author : Campbell McCutcheon
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445611031
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Home Guard Manual 1941 written by Campbell McCutcheon and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about the real Dad's Army, from the manual used to train them.
Author : Campbell McCutcheon
Publisher : History Press (SC)
ISBN 13 : 9780752444710
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Home Guard Manual 1941 written by Campbell McCutcheon and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable handbook employed by the ragtag group of men who formed 'Dad's Army' during the Second World War, the Home Guard Manual is as fascinating today as it was vital in 1941.
Author : Richard Webber
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780752846378
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)
Download or read book The Complete A-Z of Dad's Army written by Richard Webber and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The success of Dad's Army can be summed up in a line from the first episode when the bumptious Captain Mainwaring says: "The machine-guns could have a clear field of fire from here to Timothy White's ... if it wasn't for that woman in the telephone box."' The Independent Dad's Army is quite simply the most successful British TV sitcom of all time. 80 episodes were made and are constantly repeated. The first black-and-white series, re-shown for the first time in 1999, attracted 4.6m viewers outperforming Have I got News for You and very nearly outstripping Channel Four's most popular programme Friends. When the second series was shown on Saturday nights in 1998 it took 7 million viewers and 40% of the audience. This book will be the last word on the series. There have been other books, but this is first to present the whole story from how the series got made - scripts, locations, filming, the real history of the Home Guard, the background to the actors who played in the series, every episode catalogued and much more. The creators have volunteered to open their archives, which include the original programme research, annotated scripts and location photographs. Now recognised as one of the great shows of this and any TV era, Perry and Croft have decided the programme requires a monument and this book will be it.
Author : Jimmy Perry
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099441427
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (414 download)
Download or read book A Stupid Boy written by Jimmy Perry and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of Dad's Army comes the wonderfully written and evocative tale of the life and adventures that inspired the hit TV shows. Highly entertaining and funny, A Stupid Boy gives fascinating insights into Perry's Dad's Army and his other much-loved British comedies including It Ain't Half Hot, Mum and Hi-De-Hi!: the real-life individuals who inspired the characters and events, and behind-the-scenes stories - including how Dad's Army came about, and how it was very nearly dropped, never to appear on our screens.
Author : Rodney Foster
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0670919829
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Real 'Dad's Army' written by Rodney Foster and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a diary every day - a highly illegal act at the time - and in it meticulously chronicled his service in the real Dad's Army.
Author : Neil Grant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178200792X
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Lewis Gun written by Neil Grant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War I, the British adopted the US-designed Lewis gun as an infantry weapon, realizing that its light weight and the fact that it could be fired both prone and on the move made it ideal for supporting advances and defending captured trenches. Later adopted by an array of countries from the Netherlands to Japan, the Lewis successfully served as the primary or secondary armament in armoured fighting vehicles and in both ground-based anti-aircraft and aircraft-mounted roles. Although it was superseded by the Bren in British service in 1937, the outbreak of World War II meant that thousands returned to active service, and it played a key role as far afield as Libya, with the Long-Range Desert Group, and the Philippines, with the US Marine Corps. Written by an authority on this iconic light machine gun, this is the fascinating story of the innovative and influential Lewis gun, from the trenches of World War I to the Libyan desert and Pacific islands of World War II and beyond.
Author : S. P. Mackenzie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Home Guard written by S. P. Mackenzie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BL Reveals for the first time the real political importance of the Home Guard BL Based on original research, particularly among recently available War Office files Today we laugh at `Dad's Army', but in 1940 the threat of a German invasion of Britain was a very real one. S. P. MacKenzie's detailed and readable history of the Home Guard offers a new perspective on the men who took up the challenge. The book shows how the Home Guard, often aslarge as the wartime army, became an astonishingly strong political force in its own right.
Author : Dan Jackson
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 1787381943
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The Northumbrians written by Dan Jackson and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2019 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often misunderstood? In this wideranging new history of the people of North East England, Dan Jackson explores the deep roots of Northumbrian culture--hard work and heavy drinking, sociability and sentimentality, militarism and masculinity--in centuries of border warfare and dangerous and demanding work in industry, at sea and underground. He explains how the landscape and architecture of the North East explains so much about the people who have lived there, and how a 'Northumbrian Enlightenment' emerged from this most literate part of England, leading to a catalogue of inventions that changed the world, from the locomotive to the lightbulb. Jackson's Northumbrian journey reaches right to the present day, as this remarkable region finds itself caught between an indifferent south and a newly assertive Scotland. Covering everything from the Venerable Bede and the prince-bishops of Durham to Viz and Geordie Shore, this vital new history makes sense of a part of England facing an uncertain future, but whose people remain as distinctive as ever.
