Britain's Final Defence

Known affectionately as Dads Army, the Home Guard was Britains very serious attempt to protect our shores from invasion by Nazi Germany in the Second World War. In the Spitfire summer of 1940, all that the 16 million unpaid, untrained part-timers of the Local Defence Volunteers (as the organisation was originally called) wanted was a service rifle for each man, but even that was too much for a country threatened by defeat to provide. Britains Final Defence is the first book to explore the efforts made to arm the home defence force between 1940 and 1944 and describe the full range of weaponry available for Britains last stand against invading Axis forces.