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Hyams, Jacky

 
9781789461268: The Day War Broke Out: Untold True Stories of How British Families Faced the Second World War Together
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ISBN 10 : 178946126X ISBN 13 : 9781789461268
Editeur : John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

Sunday, September 3, 1939: the dawn of a new conflict that would engulf the world, following the words of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain: "This country is at war with Germany." By the time World War II ended in 1945, nearly half a million people from Britain and its empire had lost their lives, and the world had changed forever. Eighty years on, a look back at the lives of British people in September 1939 reveals a very different world from the one we know today. Unprecedented hardship lay ahead for a country where free healthcare for all was unknown: strict rationing of food and petrol, conscription for both sexes, and personal tragedy year after year amidst the chaos of Britain's bombed out cities and ports. What was it really like to be living in Britain in September 1939? The Day the War Broke Out is a fresh insight into the hearts and minds of a nation on that fateful day. With exclusive personal interviews, untold stories, wartime diaries, and newspaper reports, it reveals the innermost fears and hopes of a society on the brink of war: through the eyes of young mothers fearful for their families, bewildered children painfully cut adrift from loved ones, and men of all ages, many now facing combat for the second time in their lives. These are personal, intimate snapshots from 80 years ago--when the entire world, virtually overnight, seemed to have been turned upside down--and of how a nation faced this new world with courage, humor, and stoicism.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jacky Hyams is a journalist and Sunday Times bestselling nonfiction author. She has written more than 10 nonfiction books, including three personal memoirs about post-war London in the 1950s and 1960s and several historical titles, The Female Few, Bomb Girls: Britain's Secret Army, and Spitfire Stories.

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Éditeur
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
178946126X
ISBN 13 
9781789461268
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
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