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Wartime Summer - True Stories of Love, Life and Loss on the British Home Front (Paperback)
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Wartime Summer - True Stories of Love, Life and Loss on the British Home Front (Paperback)
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We take summer holidays for granted but, back in the 1940s, the
picture was very different. War had gripped Britain. Wave after
wave of bombs fell, beaches were closed off, and petrol was
rationed by the forbidding question, 'Is your journey really
necessary?' But the summer days (with double summer time) seemed to
go on forever, war or no war - and British families were determined
to make the best of their paralyzed country. For evacuated
children, this meant freedom that is unimaginable today: wandering
at will, discovering wildlife in fields and ponds, foraging from
orchards and hedgerows and swimming in the streams. Elsewhere,
country estates were requisitioned for the war efforts, the tennis
courts given over for training and the Lord and Lady of the manor
sent packing! Dances attracted people from all walks of life - from
ballroom dances to the thrill of the arrival of the GIs and the
jitterbug. But the shadow of war was never far away; the evacuation
of Dunkirk in 1940, and the D-Day Landings in 1944 took place in
June - with unreliable summer weather playing a part in both. In
this book, Caroline Taggart shows us how Britons succeeded in
keeping up spirits in spite of the constant devastation of battle.
It is a revealing and entertaining collection of first-hand
reminiscences from people who lived through those six long years.
Touching, tragic, occasionally hilarious, it shows the British
soldiering on as best they could.
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