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Cargando... The People's War: Britain, 1939-45por Angus Calder
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A beginning to the discussion of life on the home front. North Americans, like myself, can only approach the experience of steady air attack and the day to day grind of the rationing of practically all consumer goods and food and other amenities by literary efforts like this. It is no wonder that the literature of the time and for the generation following, is fascinated by food. It draws heavily on materials drawn from the "Mass Observation" agency. This book has been re-issued at least twice in its history. ( ) An amazing compendium of facts and reports of England's struggle in World war II, organized mostly chronologically, subdivided in such a way that roots of difficulties and obstructions are visited to explain the outcome. The ultimate perspective for those who lived through it is partially one of surprise blended with partial remembrance of Churchill's oratory and statesmanship: raising Dunkirk from the ashes, the joyful arrival of the Yanks in Piccadilly Circus, the Pyrrhic victory implicit in the final VE Day. A much treasured reference book, although one with an axe to grind. Season with care, sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The 1939-45 conflict was, for Britain, a "total war"; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. This book not only states the great events and the leading figures, but also the oddities and the banalities of daily life, and in particular the parts played by ordinary people- air raid wardens and Home Guards, factory workers and farmers, housewives and pacifists. Above all, the book reveals how, in those six years, the British people came closer to discarding their social conventions than at any time since Cromwell's republic. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)941.084History and Geography Europe British Isles Historical periods of British Isles 1837- Period of Victoria and House of Windsor 1936-1945Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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