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 eve

A narrative history of the Home Guard from its creation in May 1940 to the end of the Second World War.

Published to coincide with the 30th annivers ary of the transmission of the first episode of Dad''s Army, this book is a gazeteer of all 80 episodes, as well as

“A fascinating examination of one of the best-known British forces of the Second World War . . . An efficient and increasingly professional military unit.”

He is one of the best known faces in television comedy, yet the long-suffering vicar of Walmington-on-Sea is in real life a Christian of deep conviction. Perfec