A HOW WE LIVED THEN:HISTORY OF EVERYDAY LIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, A by Norman Longmate ( 9780712668323 )

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A HOW WE LIVED THEN:HISTORY OF EVERYDAY LIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, A

By:

Norman Longmate

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0712668322

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9780712668323

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Publisher:

VINTAGE PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

1 July, 2002

Pages:

592

Description:

Compiled by the historical adviser to the TV series "The 1940s House", this is an engagingly written social chronicle of wartime civilian life in England from September 1939 to August 1945 - from the grandeurs of the Blitz to the miseries of dried egg powder - with numerous individual testimonies.

Synopsis:

Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of books on military operations, barely any have concerned themselves with the individual's experience. The problems of the ordinary family are barely ever mentioned - food rationing, clothes rationing, the black-out and air raids get little space, and everyday shortages almost none at all. This book is an attempt to redress the balance; to tell the civilian's story largely through their own recollections and in their own words.

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