Wartime
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A01=Juliet Gardiner
Author_Juliet Gardiner
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evacuation
food shortages
GIs
home front
persecuted italians
second world war
war
Product details
- ISBN 9780755310289
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 137 x 199mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2005
- Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war on the Home Front. The book has been commended for its inclusion of many under-described aspects of the Home Front, and alongside familiar stories of food shortages, evacuation and the arrival of the GIs, are stories of Conscientious Objectors, persecuted Italians living in Britain and Lumber Jills working in the New Forest. Drawing on a multitude of sources, many previously unpublished, she tells the story of those six gruelling years in voices from the Orkney Islands to Cornwall, from the Houses of Parliament to the Nottinghamshire mines.
Juliet Gardiner is a historian with wide academic and commercial credentials. She spent five years as editor of History Today magazine, and has been Academic Director at Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Head of Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University. She has contributed widely to the UK's national press and her television experience includes being a member of the on-screen member of the 'war cabinet' for The 1940s House, for which she was also the historical consultant. She is the author of ten books.
