The British Home Guard Pocketbook

Author : A.F.U. Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472835574

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The British Home Guard Pocketbook by A.F.U. Green Pdf

'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!

Author : A.F.U. Green
Publisher : Anova Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1844861066

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The British Home Guard Pocket-Book by A.F.U. Green Pdf

'The Home Guards are an attacking force lying in wait for, and ready to destroy, and 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 Home Guard Pocket-Book evokes this spirit. Written by Brig-Gen Green, commanding 4th battalion, Sussex Home Guard and Training Advisor 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, such as: '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!

Author : Arthur Frank Umfreville Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:1391288756

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The British Home Guard Pocket Book by Arthur Frank Umfreville Green Pdf

Author : S. P. Mackenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0192853317

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The Home Guard by S. P. Mackenzie Pdf

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 L. LaCroix,Saul Levmore,Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190873455

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Power, Prose, and Purse by Alison L. LaCroix,Saul Levmore,Martha C. Nussbaum Pdf

"Power, Prose, and Purse is an edited collection of essays that draw connections between literature, economics and law. The essays discuss novels that explore the time period between the Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression and analyze the insights that novelists may offer to law and economics, while noting the tensions among these paradigms"--

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210026416329

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : David Carroll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015050007791

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The Home Guard by David Carroll Pdf

A text which uses over 200 photographs to bring to life the Home Guard during a unique period in British history. The images recall the activities of the auxiliary force otherwise known as 'Dad's Arm'. The book draws on the early days of the Local Defence Volunteers from the moment when Anthony Eden broadcast an appeal, to the official stand-down of the Home Guard n 1944. This title evokes memories of World War II in a domestic setting and asserts life on the Home Front from the perspective of those left behind to defend it.

Author : Norman Longmate
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445608785

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The Real Dad's Army by Norman Longmate Pdf

A narrative history of the Home Guard from its creation in May 1940 to the end of the Second World War.

Author : Lee Johnson
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1612007678

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The Home Guard Training Pocket Manual by Lee Johnson Pdf

Excerpts from the many unofficial 'manuals' avidly bought by members of the British Home Guard desperate to prepare for invasion during World War II

Author : Anonim
Publisher : In the Hands of a Child
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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World War Ii by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082985816

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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 by New York Public Library. Research Libraries Pdf

Author : Charles A. Booth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN : PSU:000012992553

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The National Guard of Pennsylvania and Its Antecedents by Charles A. Booth Pdf

Author : Neil R. Storey
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0747807515

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The Home Guard by Neil R. Storey Pdf

During the uncertain early months of World War 2, many feared that it was only a short time before an attempt would be made to invade a woefully undefended British mainland. What became Home Guard was formed in February 1940 to help defend Britain's shores from attack, initially just in Dover, but, after the beginning of Hitler's Blitzkrieg, all over Britain. Originally called the Local Defence Volunteers, this army of men, drawn from those too old and too young to enlist in the regular army were equipped with uniforms, equipment and the know-how to repel the invader-at least such was the goal. Huge numbers volunteered and by midsummer 1940 1.5 million men had been recruited. They were promised uniforms, weapons and training, but at first weapons were in short supply, the Home Guard becoming well known for its old, worn weapons shared by many men at best, and pitchforks and shotguns at worst. Training and equipment later improved, but the image of the Home Guard as an ill-equipped force persisted and was affectionately mocked in the BBC's 'Dad's Army' which has turned the Home Guard into legend. This concise history of the LDV and Home Guard is illustrated throughout with photographs and ephemera, and includes the '202' battalions - 'Churchill's Secret Army' which received special covert training to lead resistance had the German army succeeded in invading the British mainland.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Economics
ISBN : UIUC:30112106701169

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Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Shaw,Joan Shaw
Publisher : Random House
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448147564

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We Remember the Home Guard by Frank Shaw,Joan Shaw Pdf

'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.