Grandad's Army: Volunteers Defending the British Isles in the First World War

by Mike Osborne

In August 1914, on the outbreak of the First World War, there was enormous pressure on men to enlist in Kitchener's New Armies, supplementing the tiny regular army and Territorial Force. This pressure was intense, and posters, the entreaties of local worthies, and an apparently indiscriminate scattering of white feathers, all exacerbated masculine sensitivity. We are all familiar, if only through BBC TV's 'Dad's Army', with the Home Guard of the Second...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781558183
• ISBN13: 9781781558188
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Fonthill Media
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"