Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45 - Softcover

Minns, Raynes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844088731 ISBN 13: 9781844088737

Publisher: Virago, 2012

Synopsis

'Women of Britain, your country needs you!'

Bombers and Mash tells the story of the Second World War on the domestic front. It takes us from the kitchen to the nursery showing how women managed without almost everything from potato peelers, cosmetics and prams to food, fuel, transport - and men. These women coped with rationing, evacuation, separation from families, long hours of work in factories, hospitals and on the land. Through it all they kept the nation fed on ingeniously nutritious and economical meals - hundreds of the best, and some of the worst, are included here.

In print for over thirty years, Bombers and Mash is moving, fascinating and full of posters and images from the Second World War. It is both an illustrated social history and a cookery book offering a remarkable picture of the deprivation and drama of the women's war.

About this title

About the Author

Raynes Minns was born in 1946 and grew up in Hampstead. This is her first book and is the result of a fascination with wartime cookery books.

From the Back Cover

'Women of Britain, your country needs you!'

Bombers and Mash tells the story of the Second World War on the domestic front. It takes us from the kitchen to the nursery showing how women managed without almost everything from potato peelers, cosmetics and prams to food, fuel, transport - and men. These women coped with rationing, evacuation, separation from families, long hours of work in factories, hospitals and on the land. Through it all they kept the nation fed on ingeniously nutritious and economical meals - hundreds of the best, and some of the worst, are included here.

In print for over thirty years, Bombers and Mash is moving, fascinating and full of posters and images from the Second World War. It is both an illustrated social history and a cookery book offering a remarkable picture of the deprivation and drama of the women's war.

Edition details

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844088731
• ISBN 13: 9781844088737
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224