Author: Jenkins, Alan,
Title: THE FORTIES.
Description: Book Club Associates, London, 1977, club edn., 232pp, 8 coloured plates and many in text line and half tone photo. ills., pictorial endpapers, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a social history of Great Britain during the 1940. from the darkest days of WW2 with the fall of France, Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, the attack on Pearl Harbor and the influx of all things American, the continuing austerity in Britain after the war, the distractions that Hollywood, music and the theatre offered on both sides of the Atlantic, the visual and performing arts reflecting the advances in technology and communications that the war had produced, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: rubbed with sl. loss at tips, repaired tear upper edge upper panel, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

Keywords: history forties war peace religion entertainment theatre cinema poetry literature politics


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