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The Real Dad´s Army: The Story of the Home Guard
Norman Longmate
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Description for The Real Dad´s Army: The Story of the Home Guard
Paperback. A history of the Home Guard from its creation in May 1940 to the end of the Second World War written by Home Guard veteran, Private Longmate, then aged 17, the same age as Pike! Num Pages: 96 pages, 70. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; BM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165. .
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445654034
SKU
V9781445654034
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-43
About Norman Longmate
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Real Dad´s Army: The Story of the Home Guard
`Just how close the TV was to reality is amply demonstrated in Longmate's affectionate tribute to the real Dad's Army'
The Mail on Sunday
`No one like Norman Longmate manages to convey with such verve and authority many of the most intriguing aspects of the Home Front'
Juliet Gardiner
The Mail on Sunday
`No one like Norman Longmate manages to convey with such verve and authority many of the most intriguing aspects of the Home Front'
Juliet Gardiner