Road Blocks: Home Guard Training Series

A road block is a tiny batt lefi eld. Here, all the principles of strategy and tactics apply - just as much as when whole armies meet in the f i eld. It is a challenge thrown down by the free world to Hitler and his hordes. A road block is a gesture of defi ance that says, ’Beyond this, you shall not come’. Lie doggo. Hit hard. And clear out! Road Blocks is one of a series of training books writt en in 1942 by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction from the Royal Armouries’ archive shows how the Second World War trainees learnt to set up and defend road blocks amidst the threat of enemy invasion.

Colonel G. A. Wade was a British soldier and author who wrote a series of training manuals for the British Home Guard in the expectation of a German invasion.