商品簡介
The British Home Front in the Second World War is a superb overview of life and the war effort in Britain from the outbreak of war in 1939, though its darkest hours of invasion threat and the Battle of Britain in 1940, to the year of Victory in 1945. All the major home front services from Air Raid Precautions, Women’s Voluntary Service, Fire Service, Red Cross and St John Ambulance to the Home Guard, Women’s Land Army and Observer Corps can all be found in this volume along with the story of families at home, evacuees, life on the ration, Make Do and Mend and women at work. Neil R. Storey and Fiona Kay paint an evocative picture of life in Britain during the war years that is profusely illustrated with many previously unpublished and rare photographs, complimented by a superb selection of documents and specially commissioned photographs of original memorabilia and badges. Drawing on over 25 years of painstaking research, collecting books, paperwork and memorabilia and interviews with those who were there, this book with its authoritative text and poignant photographs provides a great starting point for anyone approaching the subject for the first time.
作者簡介
Neil R. Storey is an award-winning social historian specializing in the study of the impact of war on British society in the first half of the 20th century. He has been writing since the late 1980s on topographical, military and crime history themes. He has written features for local and national magazines and journals as well as several books on the First and Second World Wars. Fiona Kay is a born and bred Geordie girl and proud of it. She lives in Northumberland and has known the county all her life. Fiona has had a life-long interest in the First World War, is a researcher with a keen eye and a real feel for subject (she has worked on the award winning King’s Men project for Sandringham, Edith Cavell centenary project and Somme 100) and has co-authored Newcastle Battalions on the Somme with Neil R. Storey (Tyne Bridge 2016).
