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Voices from the Home Front
Felicity Goodall
出版
David & Charles
, 2004
主題
History / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Military / General
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
0715317083
9780715317082
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LSBnAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Despite the regular and devastating bombing raids that rained down on Britain's major cities, people settled into a surreal normality. Workers went about their everyday business before heading to local factories to work extra hours producing munitions. Women wove camouflage nets, fished for tyres in village ponds and gathered nettles as part of the war effort. Bankers and accountants played war games with the Home Guard and searched for anti-personnel bombs in cornfields. Gardening became a national obsession as everyone struggled to boost rations with home-grown produce, while charming American servicemen made the pulses of British women beat a little faster. From Orkney to Dover, Glasgow to Grimsby, the records of daily life experienced by the population of Britain tell of bravery, despair, exhaustion and an unbreakable spirit of resistance. Felicity Goodall has woven disparate contemporary narratives from ordinary people to create an evocative and stunning history of life as it really was on the British Home Front. Book jacket.