Keep the Home Guard Turning

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.

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

The title is a play on the First World War song Keep the Home Fires Burning.

References

  1. Linklater p.295

Bibliography

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


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