Naval And Military Press

One of a series of Second World War booklets on weapons intended for the training of recruits, this treatise is dedicated to the venerable Vickers machine gun. A weapon that saw service 20 years...

Pinpoint marksmanship and handling rifles for the recruits of the Home Guard as explained in a booklet liberally illustrated with photographs and diagrams.Author: T. S. SmithPublisher: Naval and...

The distilled knowledge of W.E. Fairbairn, legendary SOE instructor in unarmed combat, and inventor of the Sykes-Fairbairn knife, who learned his deadly skills in 30 years on the Shanghai waterfront...

The principles and practice of camouflage as they were explained to Home Guard recruits early in the Second World War. Laviishly illustrated with line drawings and diagrams, this useful booklet shows...

Hands Off! shows the emancipated woman how to deal with any "unpleasant" situation which would immeasurably increase their efficiency in the War Effort. The methods of self-defence were especially...

In a very few pages, this little Second World war booklet tells us all there is to know about one of warfare's most effective weapons: the hand grenade. Written on the principle that accidents are...

This book was intended to show members of the Home Guard and the regular forces that close quarter battle or CQB is not conducted in a gentlemanly way - it is kill or be killed. The authors describe...

A fascinating 'what might have been' account of a fictitious defence of an English village by the Home Guard in the Second World War. Published by the Home Guard late in 1940 when the invasion scare...

This book is an attempt to put into cold reality Churchill's famous rhetoric about 'fighting in the streets, beaches and landing grounds' to resist a German invasion early in the Second World War...