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The Real Dad S Army

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Author : Norman Longmate
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2010-08-15

The Real Dad S Army written by Norman Longmate and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-15 with History categories.

A narrative history of the Home Guard from its creation in May 1940 to the end of the Second World War.

In Search Of The Real Dad S Army

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Author : Stephen Cullen
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2012-02-29

In Search Of The Real Dad S Army written by Stephen Cullen and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with History categories.

What was the Home Guard? Who were the men and women who served in it? And what can be said of their real role and significance once the popular myths have been stripped away? Despite the fame of the Home Guard – of Dad’s Army – the true story of this wartime organization tends to be neglected. The myths obscure the reality. Stephen Cullen’s aim in this thoroughgoing new study is to cut through the misunderstandings in order to reassess the Home Guard and its contribution to Britain’s war effort – and to deepen our understanding of the men and women who were members of it. He sets the Home Guard in the long historical context of domestic defense planning, then focuses on the preparations made before the outbreak of the Second World War. In detail he traces the changing role of the Home Guard during its wartime existence as it adapted to meet the multitude of challenges it faced – from civil defense and intelligence gathering to training for guerrilla warfare. Using vivid eyewitness testimony and oral history, he takes a grassroots look at the men - and women – from all ages and social backgrounds who made up this national defense force. The equipment, uniforms, weapons and vehicles they used and the field defenses they manned are described as their role developed over the course of the war. He also examines the evolution of popular views of the Home Guard from wartime days to the present – the notion of the People’s Army, the thinking of early Home Guard commentators like George Orwell, and the writings of more recent historians who have sought to explain an organization that retains such an extraordinary hold on the popular imagination.

The Real Dad S Army

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Author : Rodney Foster
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-10-27

The Real Dad S Army written by Rodney Foster and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-27 with History categories.

"Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?" Not Colonel Rodney Foster, a platoon commander of the Kent Home Guard. Here, for the first time, is the full inside story of the Home Guard, the ragtag volunteer army that defended the coast of Britain from German invasion during the Second World War. Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a diary every day - a highly illegal act at the time. Living directly beneath the Battle of Britain on the Kent coast, Foster commanded a company of men in the face of constant aerial bombardment and the ever-present threat of death from above - Hitler's crack parachutists. Writing from the village hall, abandoned barns, churches and makeshift officers' messes, he records with a unique wit and wisdom the everyday details of family life during the war: the domestic routine dogged by air raid warnings, the antics of soldiers stationed nearby taking every chance to improve their lot, the quiet strength of a small community faced with great adversity.

The Real Dads Army

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Author : John Grehan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020

The Real Dads Army written by John Grehan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.

The Real Dad S Army

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Author : Rodney Foster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

The Real Dad S Army written by Rodney Foster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.

Dad S Army The Best Of British Comedy

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Author : Richard Webber
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2010-04-15

Dad S Army The Best Of British Comedy written by Richard Webber and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-15 with Performing Arts categories.

The best jokes, gags and scenes from a true British comedy classic. ‘They don't like it up 'em!’

Dads Army

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Author : Bill Pertwee
language : en
Publisher: Salamander Books
Release Date : 2000-05

Dads Army written by Bill Pertwee and has been published by Salamander Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05 with categories.

The Complete A Z Of Dad S Army

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Author : Richard Webber
language : en
Publisher: Orion Publishing Company
Release Date : 2001

The Complete A Z Of Dad S Army written by Richard Webber and has been published by Orion Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Performing Arts categories.

'The success of Dad's Army can be summed up in a line from the first episode when the bumptious Captain Mainwaring says: "The machine-guns could have a clear field of fire from here to Timothy White's ... if it wasn't for that woman in the telephone box."' The Independent Dad's Army is quite simply the most successful British TV sitcom of all time. 80 episodes were made and are constantly repeated. The first black-and-white series, re-shown for the first time in 1999, attracted 4.6m viewers outperforming Have I got News for You and very nearly outstripping Channel Four's most popular programme Friends. When the second series was shown on Saturday nights in 1998 it took 7 million viewers and 40% of the audience. This book will be the last word on the series. There have been other books, but this is first to present the whole story from how the series got made - scripts, locations, filming, the real history of the Home Guard, the background to the actors who played in the series, every episode catalogued and much more. The creators have volunteered to open their archives, which include the original programme research, annotated scripts and location photographs. Now recognised as one of the great shows of this and any TV era, Perry and Croft have decided the programme requires a monument and this book will be it.

In Search Of The Real Dad S Army

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Author : Stephen M. Cullen
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2012-02-29

In Search Of The Real Dad S Army written by Stephen M. Cullen and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with History categories.

“A fascinating examination of one of the best-known British forces of the Second World War . . . An efficient and increasingly professional military unit.” —History of War What was the Home Guard? Who were the men and women who served in it? And what can be said of their real role and significance once the popular myths have been stripped away? Despite the fame of the Home Guard—of Dad’s Army—the true story of this wartime organization tends to be neglected. The myths obscure the reality. Stephen Cullen’s aim in this thoroughgoing new study is to cut through the misunderstandings in order to reassess the Home Guard and its contribution to Britain’s war effort—and to deepen our understanding of the men and women who were members of it. He sets the Home Guard in the long historical context of domestic defense planning, then focuses on the preparations made before the outbreak of the Second World War. In detail he traces the changing role of the Home Guard during its wartime existence as it adapted to meet the multitude of challenges it faced—from civil defense and intelligence gathering to training for guerrilla warfare. “This enjoyable and well-illustrated book covers the ‘rags to riches’ story of the Home Guard from the 1940 volunteer in civilian clothing, armed with a keepsake from an earlier war, to the fully trained and equipped part-time soldier.” —The Armourer “An interesting and accurate account of a force that was in fact a well drilled, well organised and by wars end, a very professional fighting unit by the time of its stand down in 1944.” —WW2 Connection

One For The Grandad

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Author : Bill Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

One For The Grandad written by Bill Mills and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.