Home Guard Manual 1941

Two weeks before Dunkirk, Anthony Eden, Minister of War, announced to the nation on BBC radio his concept of a Local Defence Volunteer force. It was a grim time! The Germans were routing the French and British in Belgium and France, Norway was lost, and within two weeks, the cream of Britain''s fighting forces would be weaponless and kit-less, seeking rescue from the beaches of Dunkirk. Eden''s wo...