Real Dad''s Army : The Story of the Home Guard

Name: Real Dad''s Army
Brand: Amberley Publishing
SKU: 9781445654034
Price: 2900 KES
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ISBN: 9781445654034

by Norman Longmate

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1445654032

ISBN-13 9781445654034

Publisher Amberley Publishing

Imprint Amberley Publishing

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 15th, 2016

Print length 96 Pages

Weight 286 grams

Dimensions 16.70 x 23.30 x 0.90 cms

Product Classification: Memoirs Memoirs British & Irish history 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Second World War Military and defence strategy Civil defence Military institutions Regiments History European history Second World War

KSh 2,900.00

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A history of the Home Guard from its creation in May 1940 to the end of the Second World War written by Home Guard Veteran Private Longmate, then aged 17, the same age as Pike!

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, himself a Home Guard veteran 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. Longmate, ex-Private ‘F’ Company, 3rd Sussex Battalion, Home Guard, joined ‘Dad’s Army’ at the same age as the fictional character ‘Pike’, and to this day he contends that the much-loved sitcom was remarkably accurate in its portrayal of life in the Home Guard.

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