Voices from the Home Front

by Felicity Goodall

Book Overview

Despite the regular and devastating bombing raids that rained down on Britain's major cities, people settled into a surreal normality. Workers went about their everyday business before heading to local factories to work extra hours producing munitions. Women wove camouflage nets, fished for tyres in village ponds and gathered nettles as part of the war effort. Bankers and accountants played war games with the Home Guard and searched for anti-personnel bombs in cornfields. Gardening became a national obsession as everyone struggled to boost rations with home-grown produce, while charming American servicemen made the pulses of British women beat a little faster. From Orkney to Dover, Glasgow to Grimsby, the records of daily life experienced by the population of Britain tell of bravery, despair, exhaustion and an unbreakable spirit of resistance. Felicity Goodall has woven disparate contemporary narratives from ordinary people to create an evocative and stunning history of life as it really was on the British Home Front. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715317083
• ISBN13: 9780715317082
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

This is a really great book

"Voices From the home front" by Felicity Goodall is a really great book. Ms. Goodall tell the experiences of the common person during World War two. This is a great book for any history fan.