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  • Victorian Fashions for Women

    by Fiona Kay, Neil R. Storey ...
    A delightfully illustrated history of women's wear in Victorian England, with decade-by-decade details of the styles—and the lifestyles they represented.Victorian Fashions for Women explores British styles and clothing throughout the long reign of Queen Victoria, from the late 1830s to the first years of the twentieth century. It provides a superb overview of the dresses, hats, hairstyles, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Faces of the Home Front, 1939–1945

    by Fiona Kay, Neil R. Storey ...
    An account of the lives of the British people and wartime organizations during WWII, with photographs and remembrances from the author's personal archives.Faces of the Home Front presents fascinating insight into the people, organizations and events on the British Home Front during the Second World War. This is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times told through an array of previously ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Home Front in World War Two

    by Fiona Kay, Neil R. Storey ...
    Series series Britain's Heritage
    When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, everybody in Britain knew that the civilian population would be affected far more than they had been in the First World War. As aircraft got more advanced, Britain’s cities came within range and were vulnerable to attack from the air, possibly using poison gas. Before the war had started, plans were made to train civilians in first aid or to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Northumberland and Tyneside's War

    Voice of the First World War

    by Neil R. Storey, Fiona Kay ...
    Series series Voices of the First World War
    This book tells the story of the people of Tyneside and Northumberland during the First World War, both in action on the front line and on the Home Front. The book is filled with many previously unpublished accounts of life at the front, the stories of soldiers written in their own words in letters home during the war and in accounts written in the years after, which have remained in family ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Women in the Second World War

    by Neil R. Storey, Fiona Kay ...
    Series series Britain's Heritage
    The Second World War affected the people of Britain like nothing before. This was especially true of Britain’s women. With thousands of men called up to join the armed forces, women took their place in the workforce, employed in the new jobs created to supply and maintain the war effort. When the working day was finished, women also served in Civil Defence and a vast array of other organisations ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 1940s Fashion

    by Fiona Kay, Neil R. Storey ...
    Series series Britain's Heritage
    Despite – or perhaps because of – the privations of war, the 1940s was one of the greatest decades for fashion in Britain. The designs and fashions of the 1930s would linger on through the early years of the Second World War but with shortages and rationing firmly in place, the Utility clothing available in the shops had to overcome these restrictions and still look new and vivid. Because so much ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Dad's Army

    The Home Guard 1940-1944

    by David Carroll ...
    The Home Guard was formed in May 1940, when the dark clouds of war rolled over Britain and the nation stood alone, threatened with a Nazi invasion. Within six weeks of a radio appeal for a new civilian army to guard the Home Front, a staggering 1.5 million men had enrolled for service, covering every city, town and village in the country. Despite initial deficiencies in the provision of training ... Read more

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  • Bomb Girls - Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II

    by Jacky Hyams ...
    They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives, mums and teenage girls, all 'doing their bit' for the war effort, clocking in daily to work in cast munitions factories, helping make the explosives, bullets and war machines that would ensure victory for Britain.It was dangerous, dirty and exhaustive work. They worked round the clock, often exposed to toxic, lethal chemicals. A factory ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Blitz Diary

    Life Under Fire in the Second World War

    by Carol Harris, Mike Brown ...
    During the 1930s, war with Germany became increasingly likely. The British Government believed that it would start with massed ranks of enemy planes, dropping bombs and poison gas on civilians in major towns and cities, terrifying them into surrendering. When war broke out, preparations to protect the population were piecemeal and inadequate. As anticipated, people were shocked by the first raids ... Read more

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  • Station 12

    SOE's Secret Weapons Centre

    by Des Turner ...
    The full story of Aston House in the Second World War has never been told before.Its activities were top secret and as important to the Allied war effort as those of Bletchley Park, but in a different way. Situated near Stevenage, Aston House was one of many British country houses requisitioned during the Second World War by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Born out of Bletchley Park, where ... Read more

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  • Our Name Wasn't Written - A Malta Memoir (1936-1943)

    by David Vernon ...
    This is the memoir of a young mother struggling to feed, clothe and house her family on "the most bombed island on earth" — Malta, during World War II.Written by two generations of eye-witnesses to the destruction wrought on the strategically vital island of Malta by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.The book contains extensive additional historical information researched from a huge number of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • VCs of the First World War: Arras and Messines 1917

    by Gerald Gliddon ...
    Series series VCs of the First World War
    For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretching from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. The Allied objective after the bloody Battle of the Somme drew to a close in November 1916 was to decisively break through the German 'Hindenburg Line' and engage the numerically inferior German forces in a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus