Author: Sir Alexander Hamilton GordonPublisher:
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Category : Barbados
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Remarks on National Defence, Volunteers, and Rifles
Author: Sir Alexander Hamilton GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barbados
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Remarks on national defence, volunteers, and rifles; with a report on experiments with small arms
Author: Alexander Hamilton Gordon (hon. sir.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Rifleman's Manual; Or, Rifles, and how to Use Them
Author: Hans Busk (the Younger.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In Search of the Real Dads Army
Author: Stephen CullenPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848842694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
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 Dads Army the true story of this wartime organization tends to be neglected. The myths obscure the reality. Stephen Cullens aim in this thoroughgoing new study is to cut through the misunderstandings in order to reassess the Home Guard and its contribution to Britains 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 Peoples 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.
National Defence. Articles and Speeches
Author: Edward Bruce HamleyPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Chamber of Commerce Journal
Author: Parliamentary Debates
Author: New Zealand. ParliamentPublisher:
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Rifles and volunteer rifle corps, their constitution, arms, drill laws and uniform
Author: Llewellynn Frederick W. JewittPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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London Scottish volunteer rifles, speech
Author: Francis Richard Charteris (10th earl of Wemyss.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Edwards's Military Catalogue
Author: Francis Edwards (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description