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The People's War

Author : Angus Calder
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144810310X
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The People's War written by Angus Calder and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. In this comprehensive and engrossing narrative Angus Calder presents not only the great events and leading figures but also the oddities and banalities of daily life on the Home Front, and in particular the parts played by ordinary people: air raid wardens and Home Guards, factory workers and farmers, housewives and pacifists. Above all this revisionist and important work reveals how, in those six years, the British people came closer to discarding their social conventions than at any time since Cromwell's republic. Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys prize in 1970, The People’s War draws on oral testimony and a mass of neglected social documentation to question the popularised image of national unity in the fight for victory.

Britain at War 1939 to 1945

Author : James Lingard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781504942126
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Britain at War 1939 to 1945 written by James Lingard and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book has excellent reviews from UCL People (University College London) and the Historical Association, a British charity for teachers. It gives a short insight into the horrors of the home front told from the perspective of someone who actually experienced them, a fascinating look at the harsh realities of life in Britain, life full of drama and the danger of impending death. How did a family with a small child caught up in such a war survive? There follows an overview of the major campaigns in World War II, giving an insight into the big picture, enlivened by personal experiences and quotations from Churchill. A Canadian reviewer has said, "This book was a relatively quick read that would be of interest to those who might not have much background in the events of the war or those who know the broad details but want the day to day understanding of how lives were affected by things like bombing raids. James Lingard has meticulously researched and presented the timeline of events for the war, but where this book really shines as far as I am concerned is in the sharing of his own family's experiences as they were personally impacted. Though only a young boy when the war began, his life was affected in multiple ways and his family was at one point thought killed as their air raid shelter was destroyed. In actual fact they had gone out to the woods for an outing, which ultimately saved their lives! "Another enjoyable part of the book was the quotes Lingard used at the beginning of each chapter. Many of these quotes were taken from speeches by Churchill or other prominent men of the time and they add to the general picture and emotions of the period."

London At War

Author : Philip Ziegler
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446496260
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book London At War written by Philip Ziegler and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939 London was not merely the greatest city in the world, it was the most tempting and vulnerable target for aerial attack. For six years it was the frontline of the free world's battle against Fascism. It endured the horrors of the Blitz of 1940 and 1941, the V1s, the V2s. Other cities suffered more intensely; no other city was so constantly under attack for so long a time. This is the story of London at war - or, perhaps, of Londoners at war, for Philip Ziegler, known best as a biographer, is above all fascinated by the people who found their lives so suddenly and violently transformed: the querulous, tiresome yet strangely gallant housewife from West Hampstead; the turbulent, left-wing retired schoolmaster from Walthamstow, always having a go at the authorities; the odiously snobbish middleclass lady from Kensington, sneering at the scum who took shelter in the Underground; the typist from Fulham, the plumber from Woolwich. It was their war, quite as much as it was Churchill's or the King's, and this is their history. Through a wealth of interviews and unpublished letters and diaries, as well as innumerable books and newspapers, the author has built up a vivid picture of a population under siege. There were cowards, there were criminals, there were incompetents, but what emerges from these pages is above all a record of astonishing patience, dignity and courage. 'I hope,' Ziegler writes, 'we will never have to endure again what they went through between 1939 and 1945. I hope, if we did, that we would conduct ourselves as well.'

London at War 1939-1945

Author : Philip Ziegler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London at War 1939-1945 written by Philip Ziegler and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, this book tells the story of London's experiences of war from 1939 to 1945. It describes the Phoney War, the blackouts, the first evacuations and the horrors of the Blitz, followed in the last days of the war by the terror of the doodlebugs, and recalls the spirit of defiance that united all sections of society against Hitler's Luftwaffe.

London War Notes, 1939-1945

Author : Mollie Panter-Downes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780582101463
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book London War Notes, 1939-1945 written by Mollie Panter-Downes and published by . This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The British Army and the People's War, 1939-1945

Author : Jeremy A. Crang
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719047411
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The British Army and the People's War, 1939-1945 written by Jeremy A. Crang and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War the British army absorbed approximately three million new recruits, the majority of whom were conscripts. Drawn from all occupational groups and social classes, the military authorities were confronted with the task of molding these civilians in uniform into an effective fighting force. This book analyzes the impact of this process of integration on the army as a social institution. Exploring such aspects of the army’s social organization as other rank selection, officer selection, officer promotion, officer-man relations, the soldier’s working life, army welfare, and army education, it assesses the ways in which the army changed in relation to its new intake, what the extent of any change that took place actually was, and how different the army of 1945 was to that of 1939.

The Test of War

Author : Robert Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Test of War written by Robert Mackay and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Mackay provides an up-to-date examination of the British home front and the country's experience of war, 1939-1945.

Home Fronts

Author : Mark J. Crowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783272259
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Home Fronts written by Mark J. Crowley and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories.

The Second World War

Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316084077
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Second World War written by Antony Beevor and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.

Browned Off and Bloody-Minded

Author : Alan Allport
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300213123
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Browned Off and Bloody-Minded written by Alan Allport and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport’s rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.

Browned Off and Bloody-minded

Author : Alan Allport
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300170750
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Browned Off and Bloody-minded written by Alan Allport and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport's rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.

The People's War; Britain, 1939-1945

Author : Angus Calder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People's War; Britain, 1939-1945 written by Angus Calder and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Europe at War 1939-1945

Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330472291
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Europe at War 1939-1945 written by Norman Davies and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional narrative of the Second World War is well known: after six years of brutal fighting on land, sea and in the air, the Allied Powers prevailed and the Nazi regime was defeated. But as in so many things, the truth is somewhat different. Bringing a fresh eye to bear on a story we think we know, Norman Davies.Davies forces us to look again at those six years and to discard the usual narrative of Allied good versus Nazi evil, reminding us that the war in Europe was dominated by two evil monsters - Hitler and Stalin - whose fight for supremacy consumed the best people in Germany and in the USSR . The outcome of the war was at best ambiguous, the victory of the West was only partial, its moral reputation severely tarnished and, for the greater part of the continent of Europe, ‘liberation’ was only the beginning of more than fifty years of totalitarian oppression. ‘Davies writes with real knowledge and passion.’ Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard ‘Punchy and compelling' Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph

Britain at War

Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : Carlton Books
ISBN 13 : 9781847328533
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Britain at War written by Richard Overy and published by Carlton Books. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endorsed by, and including rare facsimile memorabilia from, the Imperial War Museum, one of the world's biggest museums specializing in 20th-century military conflict Written by leading historian Richard Overy, Britain at War transports the reader right back into the heart of the action. Each key event is presented concisely, with maps, photographs, and documents bringing the epic story to life as never before. Every theater involving British troops is covered, from the first two years of the global conflagration in which Britain and her Commonwealth allies, stood alone against the might of [Nazi] Germany and her Axis allies fascist Italy and [Imperial Japan], to the later years when allied alongside the United States and Russia, they continued the long, hard, but ultimately victorious fight for the freedom of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Special items include: Order No. 1 (the German order to invade Poland which led to the British declaration of war against Germany); the letters home of a British officer in Africa telling of his harrowing involvement in the battles of Gazala and Tobruk; and Montgomery's orders for El Alamein.

The Navy at War, 1939-1945

Author : Stephen Wentworth Roskill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Navy at War, 1939-1945 written by Stephen Wentworth Roskill and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945–85

Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317318048
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945–85 written by Mark Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.

Which People's War?

Author : Sonya O. Rose
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191001902
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Which People's War? written by Sonya O. Rose and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-05-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which People's War? examines how national belonging, or British national identity, was envisaged in the public culture of the World War II home front. Using materials from newspapers, magazines, films, novels, diaries, letters, and all sorts of public documents, it explores such questions as: who was included as 'British' and what did it mean to be British? How did the British describe themselves as a singular people, and what were the consequences of those depictions? It also examines the several meanings of citizenship elaborated in various discussions concerning the British nation at war. This investigation of the powerful constructions of national identity and understandings of citizenship circulating in Britain during the Second World War exposes their multiple and contradictory consequences at the time. It reveals the fragility of any singular conception of 'Britishness' even during a war that involved the total mobilization of the country's citizenry and cost 400,000 British civilian lives.