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Is there a book collecting the Home Guard's improvised defence ideas?

An uncompleted Home Guard book project led to a recommendation of Gordon Corrigan's First World War work for related context.

Question

Has anyone collected the Home Guard's more alarming improvised defence ideas in a book?

Short answer

No equivalent book was identified. A joint book project remained unwritten, and Gordon Corrigan's First World War work was recommended for background.

Notes

Alex Clarke and Drachinifel had considered writing a book on the Home Guard's improvised defence ideas but had not completed it or found an existing equivalent. That is a statement about their reading, not proof that no such book exists. Gordon Corrigan's Mud, Blood and Poppycock is a recommendation for First World War context. Corrigan is also suggested as an author who could do justice to the veterans behind the Home Guard, though whether he had written on that subject was uncertain.