In Search of the Real Dad's Army: The Home Guard and the Defence of the United Kingdom 1940 - 1944. This item is unavailable.In Search of the Real Dad's Army: The Home Guard and the Defence of the United Kingdom 1940 - 1944

By the summer of 1940 nearly a million and a half British men had joined the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV), a response to the very real threat of invasion by a rapidly advancing German Army. This book explores the LDVs transformation from an enthusiastic yet ill-equipped organisation into the capable Home Guard, which, as the threat of invasion receded, nevertheless became key to the UKs local defence strategy, as well as a means of combating the purported Fifth Column. Off-mint.

After studying at the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, Dr Stephen M. Cullen taught economics, history and politics at independent schools. He has published many papers, articles and reports on twentieth-century history, in particular on the world wars, fascism and the Home Guard. His books include The Last Capitalist: A Dream of a New Utopia, Children in Society: A Libertarian Critique, Cohort of the Damned: Armed Collaboration in Wartime France - The Milice Francaise and Home Guard Socialism: A Vision of a People's Army.