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The Home Guard Manual
by Campbell McCutcheon
Product Group: Book
Publisher: The History Press Ltd (2006-08-01)
ISBN: 0752438875
EAN: 9780752438870
Dewy Decimal #: 941
Paperback: 234 pages
SKU: B339-1170
Condition: Like New
Comments: UNREAD but may have minor imperfections such as a crease or mark. In stock - quick dispatch, from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Customer Reviews
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Interesting book, but not quite what it's made out to be.
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-08-19
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
I bought this book as I was looking to find out more about the British Home Guard in WWII, but discovered to my dismay that it's actually a reprint of a manual for the New Zealand Home Guard instead. Looking on the bright side though, I have learned something, since I didn't know that there was a New Zealand Home Guard during the war before reading this book.
I'm in no way knocking the manual, it's a fine publication with some fascinating information (everything from land navigation to operating a Thompson sub-machine gun, to making Molotov Cocktails), so it is an interesting read.
Since there were so many privately published Home Guard manuals printed during WWII, I find it strange that they've chosen to reprint this one though.
All in all it's worth a look, just don't expect it to be the same manual that your grandad used (unless he lived in New Zealand).
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An excellent reprint
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-01-30
7 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a reprint of a genuine handbook for the Home Guard in 1941, if you are interested in the British Home Guard during World War Two then obviously this is something for you.
A lot of the information here is hard to find elsewhere, or it will be spread out over several books or websites. This book is very convenient in that it contains in a small package everything a member of the Home Guard was supposed to know, and it's well arranged too.
The things that a Home Guard member was supposed to know included things like: traffic control, destroying railways, using and maintaining his weapons, making improvised grenades, and lots of other things.
Much of this would apply to the regular army as well, and since there's no reprint of regular army manuals this is a serviceable substitute.
Definitely a worthwhile purchase for amateur historians, wargamers, budding writers etc.
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