How We Lived Then : A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War (Paperback)

from Whiskey3pa

A fairly unique look at the period from 1939 -1945 in Great Britain. Not a story of the RAF or US Army Air Corps or any of the various military units in action at that time but, rather, a view of life for the society as a whole. The accounts of people from all walks of life are incorporated into ...

from etxgardener

World War II was in many instances the defining event for modern Britain. It lasted 6 long years, two of which they were fighting Germany alone. Norman Longmate gives us an encyclopedic look at what it was like to live in the UK during those years, From rationing (which lasted until 1954) to mand...

from DinadansFriend

The soldiers and sailors had the flashy life, but this is about civilian life in Britain during WWII. a workmanlike account it was later replaced by the People's War by Calder, but still a good introduction to the deeper hardships.