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A different view of WW2 on the Home Front UK,
By K. Maxwell "katmax1" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Phoney War on the Home Front (Hardcover)
From 1938 when War was declared in the UK till Dunkirk in 1940 the British public lived through "The phoney war". They were asked to make sacrifices: Move their children out of the city and into country foster-care; strict petrol rationing; blackouts at night; confiscated hotels for government use and a myriad other "inconveniences" that made life much harder for everyone - including the start of food rationing.
All through this period the ordinary people of the UK were told they were at War and to give, give, give in the name of unity and an Patriotic effort to win the war - the problem was that no bombs were being dropped on cities, and their soldiers were not dying in droves, and it made the government rhetoric look increasingly hollow as time went on and their prophesies were not fulfilled - till Dunkirk when everyone woke up and realised the true danger they were in. This book provided, for me, a new look at the early days of WW2 in the UK. Many changes took place in civilian life that before the on-set of war people would have seen as inconceivable. Suspicion ruled the countryside when "don't talk" campaigns went wrong - and I finally found out the origin of the term "fifth column". If WW2 interests you as a period this book is a good one to pick up for a new view of the period.
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