We Remember The Home Guard

Author : Frank Shaw
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448147565
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book We Remember the Home Guard written by Frank Shaw and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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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Author : Frank Shaw
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
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Total Pages : 114 pages
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Download or read book The Home Guard written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (76) S. 4131, (76) S. 4138, (76) S. 4062, (76) S. 4105, (76) S. 4175.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
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Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book The Home Guard, Hearings ..., on S. 4175 ..., August 13, 15, Sept 5, 20, 25, 1940 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Shaw
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0091941539
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book We Remember the Home Guard written by Frank Shaw and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Leo McKinstry
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468311123
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Sea Lion written by Leo McKinstry and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “immaculately researched and compellingly written” WWII history sheds new light on Britain’s critical victory against Nazi invasion (The New Criterion). In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway, and the Low Countries were all under occupation. Only Britain stood in the way of the complete triumph, and Hitler planned a two-pronged offensive?a blistering aerial bombardment followed by a land invasion?to subdue his final enemy. But for the first time in the war, Hitler did not prevail. As Leo McKinstry details in this fascinating new history, the British were far more ruthless and proficient than is usually recognized. The brilliance of the RAF in the Battle of Britain was not an exception but part of a pattern of magnificent organization that thwarted Hitler’s armies at every turn. Using a wealth of archival and primary source materials, Leo McKinstry provides a groundbreaking new assessment of the six fateful months in mid-1940 when Operation Sea Lion was all that stood between the Nazis and total victory.

Author : S. P. Mackenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192853318
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Home Guard written by S. P. Mackenzie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
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Total Pages : 330 pages
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Download or read book Nomination of Lieut. Col. Duncan K. Major, Jr. to be a Colonel written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: