The day war broke out : untold true stories of how British families faced the Second World War together
Hyams, Jacky2019
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Sunday, 3rd September 1939: the dawn of a new conflict that would engulf the world, following the words of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain: 'This country is at war with Germany'. By the time World War II ended in 1945, nearly half a million people from Britain and its empire had lost their lives, and the world had changed forever. Eighty years on, a look back at the lives of British people in September 1939 reveals a very different world from the one we know today. Unprecedented hardship lay ahead for a country where free healthcare for all was unknown: strict rationing of food and petrol, conscription for both sexes, and personal tragedy year after year amidst the chaos of Britain's bombed out cities and ports. What was it really like to be living in Britain in September 1939? This book is a fresh insight into the hearts and minds of a nation on that fateful day.
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London : John Blake, 2019.
Collation:
ix, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
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Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781789461268 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5'341940.5341
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English
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BRN:
2820497
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