Britain's Final Defence (eBook)

Arming the Home Guard 1940-1944

Dale Clarke (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016 | 1. Auflage
288 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6970-3 (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 1 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: arming the home guard 1940-1944 • arming the home guard 1940-1944, home guard, spitfire summer, untrained, part-tim, local defence volunteers, service rifle, home defence force, weaponry, ww2, wwii, world war two, world war 2, world war ii, second world war, • Dad's Army • home defence force • Home Guard • Local Defence Volunteers • part-tim • Second World War • service rifle • spitfire summer • untrained • weaponry • World War 2 • World War II • World War Two • ww2 • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-6970-9 / 0750969709
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6970-3 / 9780750969703