Description
Product ID: | 9781781558188 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Grandad's Army |
Subtitle: | Volunteers Defending the British Isles in the First World War |
Authors: | Author: Mike Osborne |
Page Count: | 286 |
Subjects: | Military and defence strategy, Defence strategy, planning & research, War and defence operations, War & defence operations |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This book tells the largely untold story of WWI's Volunteer Training Corps, the forgotten equivalent of World War II's Home Guard. Self-financing and training in their spare time they developed as an effective anti-invasion force. Alongside VTC were the many medical, transport, police and youth organisations which also kept the home fires burning. |
Imprint Name: | Fonthill Media Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Fonthill Media Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-02-18 |