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The Real Dad's Army by Norman Longmate
The Real Dad's Army by Norman Longmate
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The Story of the Home Guard
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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. ^ top

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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.
Release date NZ
January 15th, 2016
Pages
96
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
70 Illustrations, unspecified
Dimensions
165x235x5
ISBN-13
9781445654034
Product ID
24158574

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