October 2010 Guest Editor Juliet Gardiner on The People's War...
Although Angus Calder’s The People’s War was published in 1969, it remains a magisterial work, an eminently readable and moving account of Britain’s Home Front that advances the view that the post war welfare state was the just entitlement for those who had ‘taken it’ during the Second World War.
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.
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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.
The People's War: Britain, 1939-45 features in the following genres: History, eBooks of the Month, History and Archaeology, Recommendations
Paperback. £25.19, down from the £27.99 cover price. In Stock.
The People's War: Britain, 1939-45 was written by Angus Calder and published by Pimlico an imprint of CCV
The People's War: Britain, 1939-45 has 656 pages
£25.19, reduced from £27.99. In Stock.
