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Britain's Final Defence - Dale Clarke

Britain's Final Defence

Arming the Home Guard 1940-1944

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Buch | Hardcover
2016
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6731-0 (ISBN)
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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 Final Defence is the first book to explore the efforts made to arm the home defence force between 1940 and 1944 and describe the full range of weaponry available for Britain’s last stand against invading Axis forces.

DR DALE CLARKE is a serving British Army officer, with more than 35 years' reserve service, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of several studies of weaponry and has worked as an armourer and technical advisor for film and television, including Tomorrow Never Dies. He is a member of the Historical Breechloading Smallarms Association, the National Rifle Association, the Ordnance Society and the Military Vehicle Trust.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 16 Plates, black and white; 40 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Stroud
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-7509-6731-5 / 0750967315
ISBN-13 978-0-7509-6731-0 / 9780750967310
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