AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE HOME GUARD - OUT NOW!

At home, as early as October 1939, Winston Churchill had proposed that a second line of defence should be put in place. This force was to be made up of men over the age of 40 and not already serving in the armed forces. The role of this volunteer army of a proposed 5 million men was to guard vulnerable points such as ports, railways and tunnels, key road junctions, possible sites for amphibious invasion and moorland and areas which could be attacked by gliders and paratroops. This was the Home Guard (initially the ‘Local Defence Volunteers’ or LDV, known by some as ‘Look-Duck-Vanish’), a defence organisation within the British Army. Operational from 1940 until 1944, the Home Guard, comprising 1.5 million local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, usually owing to age, or reserve occupation was given the nickname ‘Dad's Army’. This highly illustrated book tells their fascinating story.


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