A fascinating history’ THE DAILY MAIL
‘Wonderful stories… a well-written account of the last line of defence’ THE DAILY MIRROR
The enduring popularity of the BBC tv series Dad’s Army has focused attention on one of the strangest and least military armies ever formed — The British Home Guard. What started as an improvised band of volunteers, had grown by 1942 into a conscripted, disciplined and well equipped force with a strength of nearly two million men.
Norman Longmate, an ex-member of the Home Guard and an authority on wartime Britain, has collected together a wealth of hilarious anecdotes as well as all the unlikely facts to produce the first popular history of the Home Guard to be written since the war.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Norman Longmate, ex-Private ‘F’ Company, 3rd Sussex Battalion, Home Guard, joined ‘Dad’s Army’ at the same age as the fictional character ‘Pike’, 17. To this day he contends that the much-loved sitcom was remarkably accurate in it’s portrayal of life in the Home Guard. After the war he read modern history at Worcester College, Oxford and went on to work as a journalist and radio producer of history documentaries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has written more than twenty books, mainly on the Second World War. For this book, and many others, he made requests through regional newspapers for veterans to contact him with their memories. He was historical adviser on the hugely popular Channel 4 TV show, The 1940 House. He lives in London.
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