A narrative history of the Home Guard from its creation in May 1940 to the end of the Second World War.

Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a diary eve

“A fascinating examination of one of the best-known British forces of the Second World War . . . An efficient and increasingly professional military unit.”

Published to coincide with the 30th annivers ary of the transmission of the first episode of Dad''s Army, this book is a gazeteer of all 80 episodes, as well as

Immortalised by ' Dad's Army' - this is the true story of the men who manned the British frontline.