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Attractive pocket manual bringing together advice and tips for families on the homefront during World War IICompiled from the Mary Evans archives, this manual brings together articles from fashionable contemporary magazines including Britannia & Eve, the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, and Tatler, on all aspects of the home front in WWII. These fascinating articles cover complying with black-out regulations; what to do with the family car; augmenting rationed foods and turning them into tasty meals; contributing to the war effort by keeping livestock, salvaging valuable materials, and growing food; all the while remaining fashionable and keeping up
Produkt The Home Front Pocket Manual 1939-1945 (Gosling Lucinda)(Pevná vazba) popisuje EAN kód 9781612008677.
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EAN | 9781612008677 |
This edition of a classic scrapbook is published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the end of the World War
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The Commandos were created by Winston Churchill in 1940 as a 'butcher and bolt' raiding unit to destroy vital targets in German occupied Europe. Recruits for this 'special service' were all volunteers, drawn from the British Army, and later from the Royal Marines and other Allied armies. Commando
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At the outbreak of World War II, London suddenly found itself on the front line. While aerial attacks had played a part in World War I, the astounding technological advances since meant that by 1939 the city was threatened like never before. The attacks took a brutal toll. Almost 19,000 tons of
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The Home Front in Britain Then and
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