Britain's Final Defence: Arming the Home Guard 1940-1944

by Dale Clarke

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 16 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750998954
• ISBN13: 9780750998956
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"