ISBN10: 0670919829, ISBN13: 9780670919826, [publisher: Viking] Hardcover Large tear to front of dust jacket. Appears to have hardly been read.
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Viking, Date: 2011-10-27. Hardcover. Good/Good Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. 2011. Viking ISBN 0670919829 9780670919826 [GB]

ISBN10: 0670919829, ISBN13: 9780670919826, [publisher: Penguin Viking, London England] Hardcover Hardback with Black& white and colour illustrations 359 pp plus illustration AcknowledgementsRodney Foster s The Read Dad s Army is the true-life account of Britain s Home Guard. Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler? Not Colonel Rodney Foster, a platoon commander of the Kent Home Guard. Dad s Army , the iconic comedy series is as well-known today as it was forty years ago. But the reality of life in the Home Guard was often very different. Here, for the first time, is the full inside story of the Home Guard, the ragtag volunteer army that defended the coast of Britain from German invasion during the Second World War. Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a diary every day - a highly illegal act at the time - and in it meticulously chronicled his service in the real Dad s Army . He records with a unique wit and wisdom the everyday details of family life during the war: the domestic routine dogged by air raid warnings, the antics of soldiers stationed nearby taking every chance to improve their lot, the quiet strength of a small community faced with great adversity. It s magical . ( Dan Snow, The One Show ). If you lament the demise of the stiff upper lip, this is the book for you . (Dominic Sandbrook, Evening Standard ). Shaun Sewell is an avid antique ...

ISBN10: 0670919829, ISBN13: 9780670919826, [publisher: Penguin Viking, London England] Hardcover Hardback with Black& white and colour illustrations 359 pp plus illustration AcknowledgementsRodney Foster s The Read Dad s Army is the true-life account of Britain s Home Guard. Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler? Not Colonel Rodney Foster, a platoon commander of the Kent Home Guard. Dad s Army , the iconic comedy series is as well-known today as it was forty years ago. But the reality of life in the Home Guard was often very different. Here, for the first time, is the full inside story of the Home Guard, the ragtag volunteer army that defended the coast of Britain from German invasion during the Second World War. Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a diary every day - a highly illegal act at the time - and in it meticulously chronicled his service in the real Dad s Army . He records with a unique wit and wisdom the everyday details of family life during the war: the domestic routine dogged by air raid warnings, the antics of soldiers stationed nearby taking every chance to improve their lot, the quiet strength of a small community faced with great adversity. It s magical . ( Dan Snow, The One Show ). If you lament the demise of the stiff upper lip, this is the book for you . (Dominic Sandbrook, Evening Standard ). Shaun Sewell is an avid antique ...

ISBN10: 0670919829, ISBN13: 9780670919826, [publisher: Penguin Viking, London England] Hardcover First Edition Hardback with Black& white and colour illustrations 359 pp plus illustration AcknowledgementsRodney Foster s The Read Dad s Army is the true-life account of Britain s Home Guard. Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler? Not Colonel Rodney Foster, a platoon commander of the Kent Home Guard. Dad s Army , the iconic comedy series is as well-known today as it was forty years ago. But the reality of life in the Home Guard was often very different. Here, for the first time, is the full inside story of the Home Guard, the ragtag volunteer army that defended the coast of Britain from German invasion during the Second World War. Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a diary every day - a highly illegal act at the time - and in it meticulously chronicled his service in the real Dad s Army . He records with a unique wit and wisdom the everyday details of family life during the war: the domestic routine dogged by air raid warnings, the antics of soldiers stationed nearby taking every chance to improve their lot, the quiet strength of a small community faced with great adversity. It s magical . ( Dan Snow, The One Show ). If you lament the demise of the stiff upper lip, this is the book for you . (Dominic Sandbrook, Evening Standard ). Shaun Sewell is ...

London England: Penguin Viking. Fine/Very Good. Date: 2012. First Edition. Boards. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0670919829 Hardback Hardback with Black& white and colour illustrations 359 pp plus illustration AcknowledgementsRodney Foster s The Read Dad s Army is the true-life account of Britain s Home Guard. Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler? Not Colonel Rodney Foster, a platoon commander of the Kent Home Guard. Dad s Army , the iconic comedy series is as well-known today as it was forty years ago. But the reality of life in the Home Guard was often very different. Here, for the first time, is the full inside story of the Home Guard, the ragtag volunteer army that defended the coast of Britain from German invasion during the Second World War. Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a diary every day - a highly illegal act at the time - and in it meticulously chronicled his service in the real Dad s Army . He records with a unique wit and wisdom the everyday details of family life during the war: the domestic routine dogged by air raid warnings, the antics of soldiers stationed nearby taking every chance to improve their lot, the quiet strength of a small community faced with great adversity. It s magical . ( Dan Snow, The One Show ). If you lament the demise of the stiff upper lip, this is the book for you . ...