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

Longmate, Norman

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ISBN 10: 1848689144 ISBN 13: 9781848689145

Casa editrice: Amberley Pub Plc, 2010

Riassunto

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

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Recensione:

'A fascinating history' --Daily Mail

'Wonderful stories - a well-written account of the last line of defense' --Daily Mirror

L'autore:

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 worked as a journalist and radio producer of history documentaries and is the author of twenty books on the Second World War. He lives in London.

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• Editore: Amberley Pub Plc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1848689144
• ISBN 13: 9781848689145
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192