Season 1

Episode one chronicles Tom Wintringham, the Red Revolutionary—one of the era’s foremost journalists, a former communist and a steadfast freedom fighter from the Spanish Civil War. He envisioned transforming the Home Guard into a formidable guerrilla force. In the unlikely setting of a grand manor on the edge of London, he laid the groundwork for one of the country’s most advanced military training hubs. Surviving Home Guard veterans recount daily life and reveal how they were trained to confront the Nazi threat.