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Author | : Frank Shaw |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2012-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1448147565 |
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'I remember standing on top of our local glen with a block of wood, expecting thousands of Germans coming down from the sky. What was I going to do with the block of wood? I never knew.' Leonard Jackson On 22 June 1940 France surrendered to Germany and the invasion of Britain seemed a very real possibility. The Home Guard was formed to defend our villages and towns. Members came from reserved occupations, those who had failed their medicals, the elderly and the young, with miners and farmers training alongside former majors. Their weapons and ammunition were negligible at first, but slowly these amateur soldiers began to produce professional results. In this unique book of reminiscenses about life on the home front, we see these men as they practise with pitchforks and fall into ditches after a pint or two of ale on the job. But we also see them learning how to fire grenades after a day studying engineering and undertaking night watches after exhausting factory shifts - knowing they could be the last stop between the enemy and their families and homes.
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Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Frank Shaw |
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Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Frank Shaw |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 0091941539 |
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"I remember standing on top of our local glen with a block of wood, expecting thousands of Germans coming down from the sky. What was I going to do with the block of wood? I never knew." --Leonard Jackson On June 22, 1940, France surrendered to Germany and the invasion of Britain seemed a very real possibility. The Home Guard was formed to defend our villages and towns. Members came from reserved occupations, those who had failed their medicals, the elderly and the young, with miners and farmers training alongside former majors. Their weapons and ammunition were negligible at first, but slowly these amateur soldiers began to produce professional results. In this unique book of reminiscences, we see these men as they practise with pitchforks and fall into ditches after a pint or two of ale on the job. But we also see them learning how to fire grenades after a day studying engineering and undertaking night watches after exhausting factory shifts--knowing they could be the last stop between the enemy and their families and homes.
Author | : Norman Longmate |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2010-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445608782 |
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A narrative history of the Home Guard from its creation in May 1940 to the end of the Second World War.
Author | : Paul Addison |
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Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
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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.
Author | : S. P. Mackenzie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780192853318 |
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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 | : Alison Uttley |
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Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Animals |
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Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Military history |
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