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Defending Albion

Britain's Home Army 1908-1919

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  • © 2005

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  1. K. W. Mitchinson
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Part of the book series: Studies in Military and Strategic History (SMSH)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: The Invasion Issue

    • K. W. Mitchinson
    Pages 1-12

  3. Supplementing the Home Army

    • K. W. Mitchinson
    Pages 13-33

  4. Planning for Defence

    • K. W. Mitchinson
    Pages 34-51

  5. Mobilization and New Auxiliaries

    • K. W. Mitchinson
    Pages 52-75

  6. Protection Companies and Invasion Scares

    • K. W. Mitchinson
    Pages 76-97

  7. The Home Army in 1915

    • K. W. Mitchinson
    Pages 98-122

  8. Reforming and Expanding the Home Army

    • K. W. Mitchinson
    Pages 123-146

  9. Restructuring and Compulsion

    • K. W. Mitchinson
    Pages 147-165

  10. ‘A Sham or a Real Thing’? The Volunteer Force in 1917

    • K. W. Mitchinson
    Pages 166-177

  11. The Diminishing Threat

    • K. W. Mitchinson
    Pages 178-193

  12. Epilogue

    • K. W. Mitchinson
    Pages 194-204

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 205-262
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About this book

Defending Albion is the first published study of Britain's response to the threat of invasion from across the North Sea in the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. It examines the emergency schemes designed to confront an enemy landing and the problems associated with raising and maintaining the often derided Territorial Force. It also explores the long-neglected military and political difficulties posed by the spontaneous and largely unwanted appearance of the 'Dad's Army' of the Great War, the Volunteer Force.

About the author

BILL MITCHINSON has written prolifically on the Great War. His books include Cotton Town Town Comrades (1993), Gentlemen and Officers: The Impact and Experience of War on a Territorial Regiment (1995), Pioneer Battalions in the Great War (1997) and Amateur Soldiers (1999). He is an authority on the battlefields of the Western Front and is the author of three volumes in the Battleground Europe series. He is a member of the Centre for World War One Studies at the University of Birmingham and is employed as a freelance editorial consultant by a major publishing house.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Defending Albion

  • Book Subtitle: Britain's Home Army 1908-1919

  • Authors: K. W. Mitchinson

  • Series Title: Studies in Military and Strategic History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230512115

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3825-1Published: 07 February 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51931-6Published: 01 January 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51211-5Published: 07 February 2005

  • Series ISSN: 2947-2423

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-2431

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 285

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Military

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