The Home Guard Manual 1941

Author : Campbell McCutcheon
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445611031
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 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 234 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 : John Langdon-Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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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 : Roland Penrose
Publisher : Farley's House and Gallery
ISBN 13 : 9780953238972
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Guard Manual of Camouflage written by Roland Penrose and published by Farley's House and Gallery. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Roland Penrose CBE (14 October 1900 - 23 April 1984) was an English artist, historian and poet. He was a major promoter and collector of modern art and an associate of the key Surrealists in Europe. During the Second World War he put his artistic skills to practical use as a teacher of camouflage. He was Lecturer to the War Office School for Instructors to the Home Guard and also a Lecturer at the Osterley Park School for Training of the Home Guard.

Author : A.F.U. Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472835573
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Home Guard Pocketbook written by A.F.U. Green and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Home Guards are an attacking force lying in wait for, and ready to destroy, any enemy who dares to set foot on out shores.' The Home Guard has been immortalised in British culture in the TV series Dad's Army. Formed by men not eligible for active service – too old, too young, in reserved occupations vital to the war effort – who were expected to resist a German invasion with any resources they had to hand, the Home Guard is the embodiment of plucky British resolve against the odds. The British Home Guard Pocket-Book evokes this spirit. Written by Brig-Gen Green, commanding 4th battalion, Sussex Home Guard and Training Adviser for the Sussex Zone, this book is based on his experience and, in his own words, 'is the result of my ransacking the dusty pigeon-holes of memory and the condensation of many books, official instructions and writings'. Its tone is informal and colloquial: 'March discipline. Troops will always march off the parade ground at the Slope. As soon as this has been done the order "March at Ease" should be given. When marching at ease the rifle may be carried in any way a soldier fancies.' Nevertheless, the book is full of sound advice on training, organisation and discipline, fire arms, reconnaissance and field engineering, the responsibilities of the Group Pigeon Officer, the proper position to adopt for surviving a dive bomb attack, and how to set a trap for an unwary advancing German cyclist!

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Home Guard Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lee Johnson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1612007686
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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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 : Christopher Richard Gabel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The U.S. Army GHQ Maneuvers of 1941 written by Christopher Richard Gabel and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dale Clarke
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969709
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Campbell McCutcheon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445650975
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Home Guard Companion written by Campbell McCutcheon and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about the real Dad's Army, from the manual used to train them and the jokes they told about themselves.

Author : Ruth Mansergh
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473894565
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wimbledon, Merton & Morden at War, 1939–45 written by Ruth Mansergh and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 350 bombs fell on Wimbledon during the Second World War, killing 150 residents and injuring a further 1,071. Around 12,000 houses were damaged and 810 destroyed.Notable people discussed in this fascinating book include Ernest Leonard Harvey, who was onboard HMS Suffolk on the night Bismarck was spotted; Peter Walley, who died when he steered his crashing aircraft away from housing in the area; Pat Reid, Colditz Castle escapee; PoW Ernest Colman's "Wimbledon Variation"; casualties of the Burma-Thailand railway; and the members of the Mitcham Home Guard who were killed when a German parachute mine hit the Tower Creameries site on Wednesday, 16 April 1941 (after a relatively quiet couple of weeks).This well-researched book also includes a list of the lost hospitals of Wimbledon, as well as war memorials in the London Borough of Merton findings which have since been added to the Imperial War Museum's website, www.iwm.org.uk. It also provides an insight into factory worker jobs that have long-since bitten the dust. Tri-ang in South Wimbledon was a national by-word for toys until it started making munitions for real. And, with the outbreak of war, Vortexion of The Broadway, Wimbledon - a manufacturer of public address amplifiers - found itself under the direction of the Government for war work.Overall, this is a poignant testimony to the momentous efforts, bravery, self-sacrifice and determination of the people of Wimbledon during the Second World War, who sought to find normality in a reality so far removed from anything they had ever known.