SEVEN BATTALIONSThe Story of London Transport’s Home Guard 1940-1946

\n\nSEVEN BATTALIONS\nThe Story of London Transport\u2019s Home Guard 1940-1946\n\nSEVEN BATTALIONS\nThe Story of London Transport\u2019s Home Guard 1940-1946\n\nThe Home Guard, familiar to us all from the antics of Dad\u2019s Army on the TV, in fact performed a deadly serious role \u2013 guarding infrastructure and communications, and releasing the regular Army for more front-line work. This is one of the Home Guard\u2019s Unit histories, giving a detailed account of their history from the Government\u2019s first appeal for volunteers onwards. The Home Guard\u2019s history stretched from the early anxious days in the summer of 1940 when a German invasion was hourly expected to the preparations for D-Day when the boot was on the Allied foot. It is a story of amateurism transformed into increasing sophistication and better weaponry; and a professional and patriotic dedication to often humdrum duty that united Great War veterans with youths awaiting the call-up to the regular fo;