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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Britain, Vera,

ENGLAND'S HOUR - An autobiogrphy 1939-1941.

Futura, London, 1981, 1st in imprint, paperback, xi, 226pp, coloured photo upper wrapper, the author of Testamant of Youth which related her experiences of WW1, this title records the grim, desperate but often inspiring years of WW2, remains of price laberls to wrappers, diag crease lower cnr. upper wrapper, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 45786

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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

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Keywords: autobiography vera brittain writer campaigner pacifist war ww2 bob blitz

Brooks, Christopher J.,

GOODBYE MUM! - More tales of the Seconnd World War Evacuation.

Privately published, Lowestoft, 1992, paperback, 32pp, half tone photo ills. in text, half tone photo pictorial wrappers, a supplementary volume to the author's 'When will I see you Again?' first published in 1991, containing the recollections of the experiences of the evacuee children to and from the East Coast during WW2, inscribed and signed by the author, fine,

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Book number: 43679

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Brown, Mike,

A CHILD'S WAR - Growing Up on the Home Front 1939-45.

Sutton, Stroud, 2000, reprint, paperback, x, 118pp inc. index and puzzle, half tone ills.and line drawings in text, large format (9.5 6.5 inches approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the effect of WW2 on British children including evacuation, rationing, gas masks, air raids, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 41011

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Brown, R. Douglas,

EAST ANGLIA 1945.

Terence Dalton, Lavenham, 1994, 1st edn., x, 152pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, half tone photo ills., maps, facsimiles and cartoons in text, coloured lettered endpapers, large format (9 x 7 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, the final year volume of the series of seven from 1939 relating the experiences of East Anglia, and East Anglians on many fronts around the world, during WW2, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41054

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Keywords: war ww2 home front topography britain east anglia

Brown, R. Douglas,

EAST ANGLIA 1939.

Terence Dalton, Lavenham, 1980, 1st edn., [x], 206pp, numerous in text photo ills., calendar of events at coloured endpapers, white cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account and description of day to day life and occurances in East Anglia during 1939 with brief details of the background of contemporary world events, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly creased at extrems., remains of price label front flap, nesr fine in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43665

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Brown, R. Douglas,

EAST ANGLIA 1940.

Terence Dalton, Lavenham, 1981, 1st edn., [x], 166pp, numerous in text photo ills., calendar of events at coloured endpapers, white cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account and description of day to day life and occurances in East Anglia during 1940 with brief details of the background of contemporary world events, edges tanned, dustwrapper: spine a little sunned, remains of price label front flap, nesr fine in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43666

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Brown, R. Douglas,

EAST ANGLIA 1943.

Terence Dalton, Lavenham, 1990, 1st edn., [x],182pp, half tone photo frontis, numerous in text photo ills., calendar of events at coloured endpapers, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the routines of home life, of enemy air attacks and of civil defence in the East Anglia region of the UK (Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex) during 1943, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly creased at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43669

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Brown, R. Douglas,

EAST ANGLIA 1944.

Terence Dalton, Lavenham, 1992, 1st edn., [x],177pp, half tone photo frontis, maps, diagramsnumerous in text photo ills., calendar of events at coloured endpapers, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the routines of home life, of enemy air attacks and of civil defence in the East Anglia region of the UK (Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex) during 1944, loosely inserted TLS from the author and another from the publisher, lightly bumped at tips of upper board, edges tanned, label final pastedown, dustwrapper: lightly creased at extrems., slightly sunned at spine, very good in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43670

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Brown, R. Douglas,

EAST ANGLIA 1945.

Terence Dalton, Lavenham, 1994, 1st edn., x, 152pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, half tone photo ills., maps, facsimiles and cartoons in text, calendar of events at coloured lettered endpapers, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, the final year volume of the series of seven from 1939 relating the experiences of East Anglia, and East Anglians on many fronts around the world, during WW2, dustwrapper: remains of price label front flap, fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43671

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Brown, Richard (ed. Helen D. Millgate),

MR BROWN'S WAR - A Diary Of The Second World War.

Sutton Publishing, Thrupp, 2003, trade paperback, xii, 308pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 5 in text maps, photo pictorial montage upper wrapper, the diary of Richard Brown 1939-46, by day a design draughtsman with the engineering firm of Reavell's in Ipswich and an ARP Warden as well, he records his preceptions of the progress of the war and of life on the Home Front, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 38570

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Bruley, Sue (ed.),

WORKING FOR VICTORY - A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory.

The History Press, Stroud, 2010, trade paperback, xxvi inc. plan of factory, 226pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, during WW2 over 1.5 million women found themselves thrust into the previously male dominated domain of the workplace, having to quickly learn new skills before playing a central role in the effort towards an Allied victory. Kathleen Church-Bliss and Elsie Whiteman were two such women, previous owners of a genteel restaurant, they volunteered for war work and soon found themselves in an aircraft components factory, Morrisons of Croydon, and they kept a joint diary providing a unique insight into life in a wartime factory, the poor conditions suffered on the factory floor as well as the general disorganisation and bad management but also how war work opened up a new world for many women, fine

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Book number: 41562

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Bruley, Sue (ed.),

WORKING FOR VICTORY - A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory.

The History Press, Stroud, 2010, trade paperback, xxvi inc. plan of factory, 226pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, during WW2 over 1.5 million women found themselves thrust into the previously male dominated domain of the workplace, having to quickly learn new skills before playing a central role in the effort towards an Allied victory. Kathleen Church-Bliss and Elsie Whiteman were two such women, previous owners of a genteel restaurant, they volunteered for war work and soon found themselves in an aircraft components factory, Morrisons of Croydon, and they kept a joint diary providing a unique insight into life in a wartime factory, the poor conditions suffered on the factory floor as well as the general disorganisation and bad management but also how war work opened up a new world for many women, fine

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Book number: 41563

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Calder, Angus,

THE PEOPLE'S WAR - Britain 1939-1945.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1969, reprint, 656pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., red cloth with black title panel lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the major political and military events from day to day 1939-1945 but as a background to the main theme of the book, a comprehensive social study of the part played by ordinary people, air-raid wardens and Home Guard, factory workers and farmers, housewives and pacifists, etc., during WW2, a little shaken, edges tanned, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems., several edges nicks, surface of price rubbed, repaired to reverse, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41220

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Keywords: war ww2 home front social history blitz civil defence evacuation evacuees