Lewis, Peter,

A PEOPLE'S WAR.

Thames Methuen, London, 1986, 1st edn., vi, 250pp, numerous half tone photo ills., line drawings and cartoons in text, tv tie-in, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, (10 x 7.5" approx.), a volume to accompany the Thames Television Production of the same name for Channel Four, drawing on material recorded by the Mass Observation Archive, the University of Suddex and the |IMperial War MUseum, a fresh look at the civilian experience of WW2 on the Home Front, drawing as well on the reminscences of many who contributed to the programme, light bump lower edges upper board, dustwrapper: faint creasing to edges, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45252

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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Longmate, Norman,

THE DOODLEBUGS - The Story of the Flying Bombs.

Arrow, London, 1986, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 549pp, [v] ads., 16pp half tone photo ills., several line illustrations in text, photo pictorial wrappers, covering the early inteligence investigations of the rumours that Germany was developing a rocket bomb, to the first mention of Peenemund and the subsequent photographic reconnaisance, an account of the German flying bomb campaign against England in 1944, the pilotless aircraft with a one ton warhead known in England as the V1 and in Germany as the Fi.103, the destruction caused exceeded that of the 1940/41 Bltitz. The Normandy invasion appeared to signal that the war was reaching its closing stages but the V1 onslought contradicted this and dealt a severe blow to British morale from its launch on 16th June 1944, despite the air-defence measures that were taken. It was difficult to defend against as the aiming of the V1s was haphazard and unpredictable. Deep shelters were made available to only a very small fraction of the population, bickering broke out between governemnt advisors as to how well or otherwise the bombing campaign had been predicted while defence measure from ballons, lines of anti-aircraft gunfire and individual tipping over of the flying bombs by RAF aircraft fast enough rto catch them but there was no real antidote to more than 100 launches a day until the invading troops were able to overrun the last launching site in March 1945, Even after the launch sites were taken some V1s were air-launched from piloted aircraft. Strict censorship at the time meant that details of the fall of the bombs did not get into the local press at the time because that would have been an aid to the enemy so they could correct their aim, so the narrative of the fall of the bombs relies on official records and on eye-witness accounts often recorded in later years, rubbed at extrems., creases to spine and wrappers, edges tanned, spine a little sunned, cnrs. inclined to curl, reading copy only

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Book number: 45824

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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Longmate, Norman,

THE DOODLEBUGS - The Story of the Flying Bombs.

Arrow, London, 1986, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 549pp, [v] ads., 16pp half tone photo ills., several line illustrations in text, photo pictorial wrappers, covering the early inteligence investigations of the rumours that Germany was developing a rocket bomb, to the first mention of Peenemund and the subsequent photographic reconnaisance, an account of the German flying bomb campaign against England in 1944, the pilotless aircraft with a one ton warhead known in England as the V1 and in Germany as the Fi.103, the destruction caused exceeded that of the 1940/41 Bltitz. The Normandy invasion appeared to signal that the war was reaching its closing stages but the V1 onslought contradicted this and dealt a severe blow to British morale from its launch on 16th June 1944, despite the air-defence measures that were taken. It was difficult to defend against as the aiming of the V1s was haphazard and unpredictable. Deep shelters were made available to only a very small fraction of the population, bickering broke out between governemnt advisors as to how well or otherwise the bombing campaign had been predicted while defence measure from ballons, lines of anti-aircraft gunfire and individual tipping over of the flying bombs by RAF aircraft fast enough rto catch them but there was no real antidote to more than 100 launches a day until the invading troops were able to overrun the last launching site in March 1945, Even after the launch sites were taken some V1s were air-launched from piloted aircraft. Strict censorship at the time meant that details of the fall of the bombs did not get into the local press at the time because that would have been an aid to the enemy so they could correct their aim, so the narrative of the fall of the bombs relies on official records and on eye-witness accounts often recorded in later years, .ightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 45825

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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Longmate, Norman,

THE REAL DAD'S ARMY - The Story of the Home Guard.

Arrow, London, 1974, 1st edn., paperback original,128pp, frontis and numerous in text half tone photo ills. and cartoons, large format (8 x 5 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the Home Guard, originally the Local Defence Volunteers, and the steps they took with a variety of imaginative and improvised methods of preparing to repel the invading Germans, a little rubbed at extrems., slight soiling to wrappers, good plus,

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Book number: 41029

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 home front ldv home guard

Lynn, Vera (with Robin Cross and Jenny de Gex),

WE'LL MEET AGAIN.

Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1994, reprint, paperback, 192pp, numerous col'd and half tone photo ills., cartoons in text, photo pictorial wrappers, oversize (11 x 8 inches), the forces sweetheart's memoirs of WW2 and a social history of the 'home front', with numerous anecdotes and illustrations, fine,

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Book number: 41784

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 home front home guard bob blitz

Lynn, Vera (with Robin Cross and Jenny de Gex),

WE'LL MEET AGAIN.

Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1994, reprint, paperback, 192pp, numerous coloured and half tone photo ills., cartoons in text, large format (11 x 8 inches approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, the forces sweetheart's memoirs of WW2 and a social history of the 'home front', with numerous anecdotes and illustrations, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus,

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Book number: 42579

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 home front home guard bob blitz

Massey, Victoria,

ONE CHILD'S WAR.

BBC, London, 1978, reprint, 126pp, half tone photo frontis, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the recollections being evacuated from Merseyside to the heart of Welsh-speaking Wales during WW2, a young seven year old girl separated from her brothers and all that was familiar to her and who never lost her homesickness, edges tanned, dustwrapper: a little rubbed and creased at extrems., short edge tear lower panel, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40962

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 evacuation merseyside wales

Mayhew, Patrick (ed.),

ONE FAMILY'S WAR.

Spellmount, Staplehurst - Kent, 1995, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 237pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., pictorial wrappers, '...a unique collection of eye-witness accounts' of WW2 from the members of one family, involved with all the fighting services and many of the civilian ones, based on the letters they exchanged throughout the war, lightly rubbed at extrems., faint vertical creasing to spine, very good plus,

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Book number: 41808

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 raf navy bob afs home blitz bombing civil defence arp front social history

McBryde, Brenda,

A NURSE'S WAR.

Sphere, London, 1980, 1st in imprint, paperback, 184pp, 8pp half tone ills., map in text, pictorial upper wrapper, experiences of a nurse who started training in Newcastle in 1938, experiencing the appalling conditions of student nurses at that time and seeing the effects of the blitz, on qualifying in 1943 joined the Queen Alexandra's IMNS/R, posted to 75th British General Hospital in Perth, relieving the 81st BGH in Normandy near Caens on D+13 and then on to Brussels, home leave in January 1945 and then the No. 5 Maxillo-Facial unit attached to the 108th BGH also in Brussels and finally to Rotenburg, between Bremen and Hamburg in north Germany, to nurse men released from the nearby Sandbostel concentration camp, edges tanned, near fine,

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Book number: 44237

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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McCulloch, Art (compiled by),

THE WAR AND UNCLE WALTER - The Diary of an Eccentric Walter Musto.

Bantam, London, circa 2005, reprint, paperback, 320pp, in text line drawings byDavid Eccles, photo pictorial upper wrapper, the diaries of Walter Musto, made from the first day of January1939 and recording the day to day throughout WW2 until May 1945, discovered by his great nephew fifty years after the end of WW2 in a family attic and used to compile this volume. Walter MUsto was a Deputy Inspector with the Crown Agency he would travel by train to mills and manufacturers of a number of products around the country checking on their quality and would write his diary on the train, lightly rubbed at tips, spine a little sunned, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 44424

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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McGivern, Cecil,

JUNCTION X.

BBC, London, 1944, 2nd edn., paperback, 55pp, half tone photo ills. in text, pictorial stapled card wrappers, the author, a BBC writer and producer, was commissioned to present a one hour feature about the railways in wartime. With such a vast and complex subject he has written a radio docu-drama covering a twelve hour period at one railway centre - Junction X - to give listeners a glimpse of one vital cross roads and the war effort from the railways. This is the script of the radio play, complete with introductory narration and sound effect directions, with twenty contemporary full page photographs of related subjects and a list of the original cast, well rubbed at extrems., short tears at spine, light overall soiling, staples rusty, good,

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Book number: 41311

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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Moore, Katharine,

A FAMILY LIFE - 1939-45.

Allison and Busby / W. H. Allen, London, 1989, 1st edn., 173pp, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, the war diaries of a pacifist wife, mother and teacher living in Sevenoaks in Kent, from the start of 1939 until the Japanese surrender, recording local events against a background of refugees, bombing and fire-watching, and commenting on national and international events as the war progressed, edges lightyl tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., a few faint impressed marks, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40963

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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Mosley, Leonard,

BACKS TO THE WALL - London under Fire 1939-45.

Victorian (and Modern History) Book Club, Newton Abbot, 1972, club edn., 397pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., pale ochre cloth grain paper covered bds. lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, using some of the Mass-Observation reports and the experiences of some of the prominent people of London (incl. Churchill, C. P. Snow, de Gaulle) and some lesser mortals (incl. a fireman, a policeman, a concientious objector) the author brings London during WW2 to life, a little bumped along lower edge upper bd., edges sl. dusty and foxed, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., some foxing to lower panel and flap, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 26045

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 diary london bombing blitz social history home front

Ogley, Bob,

DOODLEBUGS AND ROCKETS - The Battle of the Flying Bombs.

Froglets Publications, Westerham, 1992, 1st edn., 208pp, title page map, maps, diagrams, half tone and coloured ills. in text, large landscape format (8.5 x 10.5 inches approx.), white cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper by Geoff Nutkins, an account of the V1 flying bomb and V2 rocket attacks on Great Britain which started just six days after the D-Day landings, of no real military significance but remembered vividly by those within range, with a wealth of photographs, maps and diagrams alongside stories of those of the civilians bombed, the defenders and rescuers as well as the RAF raids on the launch sites and the fighters who shot down some of the V1's, slight sunning to edges, faint spill marks at fore-edge and faintly into fore-margin of title, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41064

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

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Price, Alfred,

BLITZ ON BRITAIN - The Bomber Attacks on the United Kingdom, 1939-1945.

Purnell Book Services, Abingdon, 1977, club edn., 192pp, double illustrated title, half tone and line ills. throughout, black cloth grain paper covered bds. lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an examination of the pre-war fears about the effects of bombing, an account of of the bombing of Britain and the growth of defences, with additional material from the Public Record Office and German sources, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., dustwrapper: rubbed at tips, short tears at head of spine, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28050

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: ww2 war home front bomber blitz defence