 | Welcome To Britain
This booklet was issued to American forces in an attempt to get them acquainted with the British, their country, and their ways, and avoid some of the more obvious misunderstandings that could easily occur without at least a little knowledge of the strange and wonderful British customs.
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 | Home Guard Manual - 1941
This reprint of the 1941 Home Guard Manual covers all the material you would expect and is a fascinating read. Basic field craft, how to survive in the open, how to destroy tanks, ambush the invaders, use weapons of varying sorts, make booby traps, read maps and send signals. The fledgling volunteer was turned into a veritable fighting machine!
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 | Make Do and Mend
This faithfully reproduced book originally produced in 1943 is often quoted and mentioned in modern reference books. Now it is available for all those interested in the Second World War British Home Front. With 32 pages and 29 illustrations its as fascinating today as when it was first published.
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 | Civilian Supplies in Wartime Britain
An astute account, written in 1945 by Monica Felton, of rationing and the advocacy of 'utility' clothing and furniture. It covers the economic and social achievements of the war years, including the problems of production and shortages, and government controls.
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 | The Schools in Wartime
Short sketches depicting different aspects of school life under the stress and strain of war, including the migration of the towns' young to the country. First published for the Board of Education, 1941.
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 | The Market Square: The Story of the Food Ration Book 1940-1944
The history of the ubiquitous ration book itself is covered in this pamphlet and remains the best published account available of the complexities of food rationing.
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 | EVE in Overalls
Although not attributed to a government department, this booklet uses official photographs. Richly illustrated, it describes the various jobs undertaken by women as 'substitution' labour - ground crew, post women, bus-conductresses, rail workers, engineers and farm labourers.
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 | Fire Over London 1940-41
A visual response to the bombing of Britain, describing the work of London's fireman. Published by the London County Council.
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 | Wise Eating in Wartime
Prepared for the Ministry of Food by the Ministry of Information in 1943, this booklet contains fifteen broadcast talks on wartime diet for adults, given by Dr Charles Hill who was known as 'The Radio Doctor.'
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 | What Britain Has Done
A selection of outstanding facts and figures for the period September 1939 until May 1945 produced by the Reference Division of the Ministry of Information in 1945. The pamphlet includes eight pages of coloured maps and charts.
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 | How to Keep Well in Wartime
Issued in 1943 for the Ministry of Health and the Central Council for Health Education by the Ministry of Information, this pamphlet sets out simple safeguards and good habits to ensure the nation is kept fighting fit. The reader will recognise that most of these common sense rules still apply today.
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 | A People at War - Life In Britain Today
This heavily illustrated booklet was originally published in 1943 by the British Information Services in New York and provides a few glimpses of how war has changed life in British homes.
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 | British Youth Answers The Call
Originally published in 1943 by the British Information Services of New York, this pamphlet describes the contribution to the war effort made by British Children.
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 | Home Front Handbook
Compiled by the Reference Division of the Ministry of Information this is a handbook of factual and statistical information supplied by the Government of the day and its various departments. This pamphlet is a reprint of the 1943 edition revised in 1945.
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 | Manpower: the story of Britain's Mobilisation for War
Prepared for the Ministry of Labour and National Service by the Ministry of Information in 1944, it describes the measures undertaken to ensure that the people of Britain made the fullest contribution to the war effort in spite of the prevailing wartime restrictions.
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 | The Care of Children in Wartime
A broadcast by Mrs Margaret Creswick Atkinson who was the Technical Adviser to Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence. In the early 1940s she made frequent broadcasts to housewives advising on similar wartime concerns.
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 | THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
AUGUST - OCTOBER 1940
(First published in 1941).
The War Facsimiles are exact reproductions of illustrated books that were published during World War ll. They were produced by the British government to inform people about the progress of the war and the home-defence operations. The War Facsimiles form part of the highly praised uncovered editions series. Both sets for books taken directly from the archive of The Stationary Office in London.
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 | Fleet Air Arm
The admiralty account of Naval Air Operations. (First published in 1943).
The War Facsimiles are exact reproductions of illustrated books that were published during World War ll. They were produced by the British government to inform people about the progress of the war and the home-defence operations. The War Facsimiles form part of the highly praised uncovered editions series. Both sets for books taken directly from the archive of The Stationary Office in London.
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 | East of Malta West of Suez
The admiralty account of the naval war in the eastern Mediterranean: September 1939 to March 1941. (First published in 1943).
The War Facsimiles are exact reproductions of illustrated books that were published during World War ll. They were produced by the British government to inform people about the progress of the war and the home-defence operations. The War Facsimiles form part of the highly praised uncovered editions series. Both sets for books taken directly from the archive of The Stationary Office in London.
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