Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Home Guard was and remains one of the most fantastic military forces ever raised. History can provide no parallel to its speed of recruitment enthusiasm and numbers. Never before had it been possible for a Secretary of State for War to enter the homes of millions and invite them to join the fight for King and Country. It was announced on November 19th 1940 in the House of Commons that there were 1200 Battalions 5000 Companies and 25000 Platoons of Home Guard. All of these men presented the authorities with a major problem – the satisfactory issue of uniforms and equipment. Aware of the confusing and sometimes apparently conflicting information on the uniforms and equipment of both the LD.V. and Home Guard presented in some books it was felt that the time had come to present all the important details in a new clear and concise manner. Now in an easy glance and all in one book the collector historian re-enactor or ‘man in the street’ can tell what would most likely be the correct appearance of an ordinary Home Guard or Local Defence Volunteer at any particular period of the war. There is even a section detailing a sample of the uniforms worn in the hit BBC series “Dad’s Army’ This lavishly illustrated book has used a combination of contemporary Army Council L.D.V. or Home Guard instructions archive photographs and modern re-enactments to show how the uniforms of the Home Guard in the Second World War changed. (LL)