Air Raids and Ration Books: Life on the Home Front in Wartime Britain - Hardcover

Brown, Mike; Harris, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 095527236X ISBN 13: 9780955272363

Publisher: Sabrestorm Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Contrary to the Hollywood-style romanticism of popular novels and films, the Second World War was more than courage on the battlefield, plucky defiance and doomed love affairs. Family and civilian life had to go on. In the midst of black-outs, road-blocks and austerity, households had to feed and clothe themselves, to travel, to decorate and furnish their homes. In this meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated account, Mike Brown and Carol Harris draw on contemporary sources including government advice, periodicals and books to provide an authoritative, entertaining account of life in the time of air-raid sirens and rationing.

About this title

About the Author

Mike Brown was Head of History in a London School and is an author, broadcaster and authority on the fashions of the forties and fifties. He is the author of 'The 1940s Look', 'The 1950s Look' (Sabrestorm) and has to date written many books on wartime Britain. Mike lives in South London and having retired from teaching now works full-time writing, giving talks and doing research.

Carol Harris is a journalist who specialises in the history of fashion in the 1930s and 1940s. She is the author of 'Collecting Fashion' and, 'Women at War: The Home Front', co-author of The Ration Book Diet, and has also contributed to exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sabrestorm Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 095527236X
• ISBN 13: 9780955272363
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216