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1. Fill in the table to decide if the information given is fact or opinion.
Then you will need to decide which of the two historians would have used this information in their books.
The first one has been done for you as an example.


Historian, J. Juniper from his 2008 book War at Home: Britain in Panic Mode

‘The Home Guard was an absolute shambles; the men did not receive any proper training. They were just given a basic gun (leftovers from WW1) and told to get on with it. These old men, often completely past it Granddads who thought war was all about charging on horses with a shiny sword, did not have a clue about modern war. If Britain was invaded would we have been absolutely slaughtered (killed) by the elite German fighting force.
They thought they were real soldiers, when really they just had a uniform and marched around a bit thinking they were important.’


Historian, C. Tessy, from her book
Britain Pulls Together

‘The Home Guard was of the highest importance and value to Britain in the war. Yes, some of the men had fought in wars many years ago, but many of the members had been in the First World War so they knew what they were doing and they definitely knew how to handle a gun!
Every street was full of determined, armed men wanting to do their part, and when everyone pulls together like this a country will never be overthrown or invaded. Hitler did not dare invade Britain because he was frightened of the stories he’d heard.’