Keep the Home Guard Turning

Keep the Home Guard Turning
First edition
AuthorCompton Mackenzie
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy
PublisherChatto and Windus
Publication date
1943
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Followed byWhiskey Galore 

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.

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

  1. ^ Linklater p.295