The Home Front: U.S.A. (World War II series)

Bailey, Ronald H and the Editors of Time-Life Books

Published by Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia, 1977

About this Item

Description: This is a volume from the Time Life World War II series. This volume takes you behind the scenes to meet the men in power -- from aristocratic Roosevelt to Donald M Nelson of Hannibal, Missouri who made good at Sears, Roebuck and went on to head the War Production Board, which regulated the manufacture of everything from refrigerators to rubber balls. America, after Pearl Harbor, was at first worried about air attack. Air-raid drills became a part of life. But the attacks never came (other than a lone Japanese pilot, launched from a sub off the West Coast, who attempted to set the Northwest woods aflame with two incendiary bombs)-- and Americans settled down to four long years of coping with the shortages and challenges of a wartime economy, An old America was dying and new one being born. Hundreds of nostalgic photographs assembled by the staff of Time Life Books take you to the heart of life on the home front. BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Near Fine book, with a Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. Note that this book was sold directly from the publisher through mail order without dust jacket. But other issues were sold in bookstores with jacket. If you take the jacket away, there is no difference whatever between the books. bibliography, index. Black endpapers. about 11.5 inches tall by 9.5 inches wide. 208 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Home Front: U.S.A. (World War II series)
• Publisher: Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardbound
• Edition: 1st Printing, so stated.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • War and Military Studies