Problem in display of page title

I am using the following code to display the word Home if its the home page, else the page title for other pages, in my website. However on the home page I dont get the word ‘Home’ output, just blank space and the bloginfo(‘name’) details, what is the problem? Thanks

BDW I have created a page named Home and set wordpress settings to point to this ‘Home’ page as the homepage of my site.

<title>
<?php if (is_home()) { echo 'Home'; /*bloginfo('description');*/ ?>
&mdash;
<?php } else { wp_title('',true); ?>
&mdash;
<?php } ?>
<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
</title>