The Real 'Dad's Army'
The War Diaries of Col. Rodney Foster
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
4 July 2012
Summary
“Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?” Not Colonel Rodney Foster, a platoon commander of the Kent Home Guard.
Dad’s Army, the iconic comedy series is as well-known today as it was forty years ago. But the reality of life in the Home Guard was often very different. Living directly beneath the Battle of Britain on the Kent coast, Colonel Rodney Foster, who illegally kept a diary every day of the War, commanded a company of men in the face of constant aerial bombardment and the ev…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780670919802 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0670919802 |
| Author: | Rodney Foster |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
The entries could have come straight from the Dad’s Army script
The entries could have come straight from the Dad’s Army script * Times *
Rodney Foster
Shaun Sewell is an avid antique dealer and social historian who brought the world of Thomas Cairns Livingstone to life when his diaries were published in 2008 and 2010. His next find was the diaries of Lt. Col. Rodney Foster who paints a rare picture of life in WWII through the eyes of the Home Guard platoon and company leader on the Kentish coastline. Shaun bought the diaries through an online auction in 2008 and was captivated by the dramatic accounts of this real life Dad’s Army’s Captain Mainwaring. Shaun lives and works in Northumberland.
Rodney Foster was born in India in 1882 and spent his career in the Indian Army. In his retirement he went with his wife and daughter to live in Saltwood, near Hythe on the Kent coastline. Here in 1940 he enrolled in the Home Guard. He died in 1962.
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