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The Real Dad's Army: The Story of the Home Guard

The Real Dad's Army: The Story of the Home Guard

by Norman Longmate (Author)

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    Illustrated 2016

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Synopsis

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. Longmate, ex-Private `F' Company, 3rd Sussex Battalion, Home Guard, joined `Dad's Army' at the same age as the fictional character `Pike', and to this day he contends that the much-loved sitcom was remarkably accurate in its portrayal of life in the Home Guard.

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 96
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Published: 15 Jan 2016
ISBN 10: 1445654032
ISBN 13: 9781445654034

Media Reviews
`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 *
Author Bio
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 radio producer of history documentaries and is the author of twenty books on the Second World War. He lives in London.