War on the Home Front

Juliet Gardiner

Publisher: CARLTON BOOKS

Publication Date: 01/09/2007

Format: Hardback

History in the Making

Get the full flavour of life during World War Two in this beautifully illustrated slipcased volume, containing over 250 photographs and 30 carefully chosen facsimile documents. Compiled by respected historian Juliet Gardiner it also includes an audio CD featuring evocative first-hand accounts from wartime Britain.
Explore the many facets of wartime Britain: from the Home Guard to the London Blitz, and from Women on the Front Line to D-Day. Endorsed by the Imperial War Museum, the book begins with a chapter on preparing for war, including evacuating children from cities. Among the previously unpublished facsimilies are poignant letters from evacuated youngsters written to their parents. Gardiner also provides details of the difficult day-to-day existence many endured with food rationing, and air raids. Their fear and upset is eloquently conveyed in this vivid narrative account which also includes:
*Map showing Operation Sealion – Hitler’s plan to invade England
*Propoganda leaflet of Hitler’s speech, ‘A Last Appeal to Reason’
*Alan Turing’s notes on the enigma machine

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