MALCOLM ATKIN is a former archaeologist and an authority on local aspects of the English Civil War. He has also made a special study of home defence and the development of British Intelligence during the Second World War. His publications on the latter include the pioneering Fighting Nazi Occupation: British Resistance 1939- 1945, Myth and Reality: The Second World War Auxiliary Units, To The Last Man – the Home Guard in war and popular culture and Pioneers of Irregular Warfare – secrets of the Military Intelligence Research department in the Second World War.