Keep Smiling Through: The Home Front 1939-45
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When the sirens wailed and the blackout curtains were drawn across Britain's windows, an entire nation was called upon to endure, adapt, and persevere — and Keep Smiling Through: The Home Front 1939-45 chronicles that remarkable story with vivid authenticity. Introduced by the legendary Vera Lynn, whose voice became the soundtrack of wartime Britain, Susan Briggs presents an intimate and comprehensive portrait of civilian life during the Second World War, capturing the rationing, the evacuations, the Blitz spirit, and the quiet heroism of ordinary men, women, and children who kept the home fires burning. Briggs masterfully illustrates how a society under siege reinvented itself, drawing on a rich tapestry of photographs, personal testimonies, and historical records to reconstruct the texture of daily life on the British home front. The result is a work of social history that is as warmly human as it is historically authoritative, reminding us that behind every great military campaign lies an equally extraordinary story of resilience on the streets, in the factories, and around the kitchen table. For anyone captivated by the indomitable spirit of a generation that refused to yield, this is essential reading.
Author: Susan Briggs
Format: Hardback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When the sirens wailed and the blackout curtains were drawn across Britain's windows, an entire nation was called upon to endure, adapt, and persevere — and Keep Smiling Through: The Home Front 1939-45 chronicles that remarkable story with vivid authenticity. Introduced by the legendary Vera Lynn, whose voice became the soundtrack of wartime Britain, Susan Briggs presents an intimate and comprehensive portrait of civilian life during the Second World War, capturing the rationing, the evacuations, the Blitz spirit, and the quiet heroism of ordinary men, women, and children who kept the home fires burning. Briggs masterfully illustrates how a society under siege reinvented itself, drawing on a rich tapestry of photographs, personal testimonies, and historical records to reconstruct the texture of daily life on the British home front. The result is a work of social history that is as warmly human as it is historically authoritative, reminding us that behind every great military campaign lies an equally extraordinary story of resilience on the streets, in the factories, and around the kitchen table. For anyone captivated by the indomitable spirit of a generation that refused to yield, this is essential reading.