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

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

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

This book skilfully combines cutting-edge historical research by leading and emerging researchers in the field to investigate the utilization of British humour

Wirral at War is a tribute to the wartime record of the people of the Wirral in the two World Wars.