[Priestley, J. B.],

MANPOWER - The Story of Britain's Mobilisation for War.

HMSO, London, 1944, 1st edn., paperback original, 60pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., half tone photo ills. inside wrappers, stapled photo montage wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5", an account of the mobilisation of the British civilian population to supplement the manpower lost to the armed forces, with women working in non-combatant roles in the armed forces, in civil defence, in munitions, shipbuilding and engineering factories, on the land, etc., with accounts of the associated problems of moving the workforce where it was needed, providing for the welfare, feeding, hostel and entertainment needs, etc, a little rubbed at extrems., slight crease upper wrapper, edges tanned and dusty, staples a little rusty, good,

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[Priestley, J. B.],

MANPOWER - The Story of Britain's Mobilisation for War.

HMSO, London, 1944, 1st edn., paperback original, 60pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., half tone photo ills. inside wrappers, stapled photo montage wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5", an account of the mobilisation of the British civilian population to supplement the manpower lost to the armed forces, with women working in non-combatant roles in the armed forces, in civil defence, in munitions, shipbuilding and engineering factories, on the land, etc., with accounts of the associated problems of moving the workforce where it was needed, providing for the welfare, feeding, hostel and entertainment needs, etc, lighrtly rubbed at extrems., staples rusty with some staining to paper, lower staple replaced, very good,

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Book number: 44660

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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[Cotterell, Anthony],

ROOF OVER BRITAIN : The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942.

HMSO, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 88pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., stapled pictorial wrappers by A. Games, about 8 x 5 inches, the official story of Britain's anti-aircraft defences 1939-1942, covers the aspects of air defence other than the fighter squadrons, ie. the Royal Observer Corps, balloons, searchlights and anti-aircraft guns and the ancilliary skills of range and direction finding (and the men and women that carried them out), that created a 'roof' over Britain, ills. include 3.7 gun and detachment, 4.5 battery, rangefinder on heavy gun site, sound locator, ROC post, balloons on land and sea, rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, good,

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Book number: 44661

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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[Cotterell, Anthony],

ROOF OVER BRITAIN : The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942.

HMSO, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 88pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., stapled pictorial wrappers by A. Games, about 8 x 5 inches, the official story of Britain's anti-aircraft defences 1939-1942, covers the aspects of air defence other than the fighter squadrons, ie. the Royal Observer Corps, balloons, searchlights and anti-aircraft guns and the ancilliary skills of range and direction finding (and the men and women that carried them out), that created a 'roof' over Britain, ills. include 3.7 gun and detachment, 4.5 battery, rangefinder on heavy gun site, sound locator, ROC post, balloons on land and sea, rubbed at extrems., wrappers creased, edges tanned, good,

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Book number: 44662

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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[Cotterell, Anthony],

ROOF OVER BRITAIN : The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942.

HMSO, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 88pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., printed by Whitefriars Press, London and Tonbridge, stapled pictorial wrappers by A. Games, about 8 x 5 inches, the official story of Britain's anti-aircraft defences 1939-1942, covers the aspects of air defence other than the fighter squadrons, ie. the Royal Observer Corps, balloons, searchlights and anti-aircraft guns and the ancilliary skills of range and direction finding (and the men and women that carried them out), that created a 'roof' over Britain, ills. include 3.7 gun and detachment, 4.5 battery, rangefinder on heavy gun site, sound locator, ROC post, balloons on land and sea, a little rubbed at extrems., light diagonal crease lower wrapper, faint creasing to bcnrs. edges tanned, good plus

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Book number: 44795

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 army hmso raf anti-aircraft battery guns 3.7 4.5 sound locator range finder balloon defence searchlight

[Cotterell, Anthony],

ROOF OVER BRITAIN : The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942.

HMSO, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 88pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., stapled pictorial wrappers by A. Games, about 8 x 5 inches, the official story of Britain's anti-aircraft defences 1939-1942, covers the aspects of air defence other than the fighter squadrons, ie. the Royal Observer Corps, balloons, searchlights and anti-aircraft guns and the ancilliary skills of range and direction finding (and the men and women that carried them out), that created a 'roof' over Britain, ills. include 3.7 gun and detachment, 4.5 battery, rangefinder on heavy gun site, sound locator, ROC post, balloons on land and sea, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 45430

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 army hmso raf anti-aircraft battery guns 3.7 4.5 sound locator range finder balloon defence searchlight home front

Anon.,

OURSELVES IN WARTIME.

Odhams Press, London, ND, 256pp, half tone photo ills. throughout, blue cloth lettered in dark blue at spine, decorated in dark blue upper board, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, a detailed illustrated account of the home front during WW2 covering the mobilization of labour and industry; the forming of a citizen army for home defence, air raid precautions and rescue; the life of the housewife, in cities and villages; the evacuation from areas at risk and the re-housing of the homeless; the maintenance of the infrastructure of communications, etc., a little darkened along lower edges of boards, edges tanned and lightly foxed, light foxing to endpapers, dustwrapper: rubbed with sl. loss at spine ends and cnrs., several nicks and short tears to edges, repaired to reverse, very good in a good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39531

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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Anon.,

OURSELVES IN WARTIME.

Odhams Press, London, ND [1944], 256pp, half tone photo ills. throughout, blue cloth lettered in dark blue at spine, decorated in dark blue upper board, remains of coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, a detailed illustrated account of the home front during WW2 covering the mobilization of labour and industry; the forming of a citizen army for home defence, air raid precautions and rescue; the life of the housewife, in cities and villages; the evacuation from areas at risk and the re-housing of the homeless; the maintenance of the infrastructure of communications, etc., slightly cocked, a littel rubbed and bumped at extrems., head and rtail of spine sun bleached, edges tanned, dustwrapper: torn, many tears and large chips, remains only, good,

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Book number: 41215

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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Beamish, Derek, Bennett, Harold and Hillier, John,

POOLE AND WORLD WAR II.

Poole Historical Trust, Poole, 1980, 1st edn., 239pp, half tone ills. and maps in text, coloured pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an illustrated record (over 100 original photographs) of World War 2 as experienced by Poole in Dorset, from the first days in the front line on the south coast of England, having BOAC's flying boat base, receiving refugees, a grand-stand seat for the Battle of Britain, the precautions against invasion, as a base for the clandestine and other raids, the preparations for Overlord, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41217

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 home front poole boac flying boats

Bingley, Xandra,

BERTIE, MAY AND MRS. FISH - Country Memories of Wartime.

Harper Perennial, London, 2006, trade paperback, [xiv], half tone photo frontis, double page map, many half tone photo ills. in text, coloured photo pictorlal upper wrapper, a memoir of childhood on a Cotswold farm during WW2 to the immediate post-war years, sl. slant to lightly creased spine, a little rubbed at extrems., good plus,

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Book number: 38565

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 home front countryside farming autobiography

Bloom, Ursula,

WAR ISN'T WONDERFUL.

Hutchinson, London, 1961, 1st edn., 222pp, frontis, title and chapter heads in line by Douglas Hall, coloured endpapers, dark blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, the author, a successful novelist and journalist who was battling with constant violent headaches during WW2 relates her wartime experiences, from the Munich crisis in 1938 through to August 1945, an everyday story of a woman's life during those years, light bump centre of spine, edges tanned, light foxing to fore-edge and prelims., dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, foxing to flaps and reverse, very good in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41218

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 home front diary

Bowyer, Michael J. F.,

ACTION STATIONS - 1. Wartime Military Airfields of East Anglia 1939-1945.

Patrick Stephens, Cambridge, 1980, 3rd imp., 232pp, numerous in text half tone and line ills., photo pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, a comprehensive account of the numerous airfields of East Anglia as well as the pre-WW2 development, with an alphabetical gazetteer of over 100 airfields used by RAF and USAAF covering their location, dates operational, squadrons and aircraft types using the airfield with brief details of operations, with contemporary photo ills. and airfield plans/maps for many, very slightly cocked, edges tanned, dustwrapper: spine sl. sunned, lightly rubbed with sl. repaired loss at upper tip lower flap fold, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40975

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 east anglia air raid luftwaffe home front air defence anti-aircraft searchlight casualties bomb damage

Briggs, Susan,

KEEP SMILING THROUGH - The Home Front 1939-45.

Fontana, London, 1976, 1st in imprint, large trade paperback, 256pp incl. 16pp in colour, numerous half tone ills. in text, large format (10 x 7.5 inches), col'd pictorial wrappers, an account of all domestic aspects of WW2 on the British Home Front, lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs, advertisements, press cuttings and other ephemera, with an intro. by Vera Lynn very sl. slant to spine with light vertical creasing, lightly rubbed at tps, faint foxing to edges, very good plus,

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Book number: 28212

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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Briggs, Susan,

KEEP SMILING THROUGH.

BCA, London, 1975, club edn., 256pp, line drawings, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, pictorial montage endpapers, large format (10 x 8 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of all domestic aspects of WW2 on the British Home Front, lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs, advertisements, press cuttings and other ephemera, with an intro. by Vera Lynn, a little bumped at extrems., edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 42499

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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Brittain, Vera,

ENGLAND'S HOUR - An Autobiography 1939-1941.

Futura, London, 1981, 1st in imprint, paperback, xi, 226pp, [i] ads., pictorial panel upper wrapper, a personal account of the early years of WW2 in and around London, faint creasing lower wrapper, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 29152

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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