Defence of Villages and Small Towns front cover - royal armouries publication

Defence of Villages and Small Towns - Home Guard Training Series

£6.99

We are not dealing with the remote future. The Huns are coming.

Will they drop from the skies and surround the village?

Will sounds of battle will be heard in the far distance?

Or will their armoured fighting vehicles will come careering across the landscape?
When they come, your village must be ready.

Defence of Villages and Small Towns is one of a series of training books written in 1942 
by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction from the 
Royal Armouries’ archive shows how the Second World War trainees learnt to defend 
rural villages and small towns from the threat of enemy invasion.

  • Publisher: ‎ Trustees of the Royal Armouries (31 Jan. 2025)
  • Language: ‎ English
  • Hardcover
  • 40 pages
  • ISBN-10: ‎ 1913013472
  • ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1913013479
  • Dimensions: ‎ 12.07 x 1.02 x 17.78 cm


About the author

Colonel G. A. Wade was a British soldier and author who wrote a series of training manuals for the British Home Guard in the expectation of a German invasion. The series was originally published by Gale & Polden.

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Part of the Home Guard Training Series. Buy 3, pay for 2 across the series. Discount applied automatically to basket.
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