To the Last Man: The Home Guard in War & Popular Culture

This historical study of the UK's WWII homeland defense service dispels the propaganda and pop culture myths to reveal its true wartime role.

In 1940, Britain formed an armed citizen militia to act as the first line of defense in case of Nazi invasion—an essential, if suicidal, mission intended to buy time for the organization of regular forces. Officially, they were the Home Guard. Later, a British sitcom that ran for nearly a decade in the 60s and 70s dubbed them Dad's Army. That show co...