01197cam a2200193 4500 579618193 TxAuBib 20220714120000.0 220714s1941||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780752438870 10.00 0752438875 10.00 TxAuBib McCutcheon, Campbell. Home Guard Manual 1941 / In May 1940, the Home Guard was founded as a last line of defence against the Germans. paperback: Great Britain : Tempus Publishing Limited, 1941. 240 pages : paperback ; 20 x 13 cm. It was May 1940, and Hitler stood on the cliffs at Calais and eyed up his next conquest, England! There was a call to arms that saw the founding of the Home Guard, a motley collection of men, poorly armed, many too old to fight in the war. The Home Guard was untried in war, often without weapons or training and they were Britain's last ditch defense against the Germans. But all was not lost and, over the period of a few months, this rag-tag group was armed, uniformed and trained using the Home Guard Manual. 20220714.