Keep the Home Guard Turning

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Keep the Home Guard Turning
AuthorCompton Mackenzie
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy
PublisherChatto and Windus
Publication date
1943
Media typePrint

Keep the Home Guard Turning is a 1943 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie.[1] It portrays the activities of the Home Guard on a remote Scottish island during the Second World War. The characters and setting reappeared in the more famous sequel Whisky Galore in 1947.

References

  1. ^ Linklater p.295

Bibliography

  • David Joseph Dooley. Compton Mackenzie. Twayne Publishers, 1974.
  • Andro Linklater. Compton Mackenzie: A Life Hogarth Press, 1992.