Surviving the Home Front: The People and the Media in the Second World War Hylton Stuart
Surviving the Home Front: The People and the Media in the Second World War Hylton Stuart Terrifying raids, thousands of bombs and countless frightened inhabitants of Britain's busiest cities.…
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Surviving the Home Front: The People and the Media in the Second World War Hylton Stuart
Terrifying raids, thousands of bombs and countless frightened inhabitants of Britain's busiest cities. However, for the people who lived through the experience, it was so much more and affected every aspect of their existence. These are the prevailing images of the Blitz and the Home Front in the Second World War.
It explores how facets of humanity showed themselves through individual tales of heroism, eccentricity and humour, but above all here Hylton shows how the irrepressible spirit of the British people overcame a period of harsh austerity combined with the fresh terrors that appeared in their skies almost every Surviving the Home Front explores through contemporary newspaper reports and advertisements the effect the Blitz had on issues as varied as fashion, food, transport and more.