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What was it like to live in Britain during the Second World War? What kind of house did the average family live in? How did people cope with the ever-present threat of air-raids, not to mention the hardship of food and clothes rationing? householders when it came to interior decoration and furnishing? How did the war affect the domestic routines of an average household? average home. How did women cope with bringing up a family single-handedly after their husbands were conscripted for military service? How did they use the rations and keep up their families spirits? What was it like to 'Make do and Mend' or 'Dig for Victory', or to sleep in an Anderson shelter? world of suburbia, Mike Brown and Carol Harris have painted a vivid picture of daily life on the Home Front in wartime Britain.
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Mike Brown is an authority on 'Home Front' Britain during the Second World War. He is also the author of three Home Front titles for Sutton Publishing - 'Put That Light Out', 'A Child's War' and 'Evacuees'. 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 Accessories' (Octopus Publishing/Miller's, 2000) and 'Women at War: The Home Front' (Sutton 2000). Carol has also contributed to exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum. Mike and Carol both live in London.
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- PublisherSutton Publishing Ltd
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0750942126
- ISBN 13 9780750942126
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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