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Fighting Fit - The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health (Paperback)
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Fighting Fit - The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health (Paperback)
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List price R310
Loot Price R279
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At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted
epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front.
Rationing would decimate the nation's health, they warned; drugs,
blood and medical resources would be in short supply; air raid
shelters and evacuation would spread diseases; and the
psychological effects of bombing raids would leave mental hospitals
overflowing. Yet, astonishingly, Britain ended the war in better
health than ever before. Based on original archival research and
written with wit and verve, FIGHTING FIT reveals an extraordinary,
forgotten story of medical triumph against the odds. Through a
combination of meticulous planning and last-minute scrambling,
Britain succeeded in averting, in Churchill's phrase, the 'dark
curse' on the nation's health. It was thanks to the pioneering
efforts of countless individuals - doctors, nurses, social workers,
boy scouts, tea ladies, Nobel Prize winners, air raid wardens,
housewives, nutritionists and psychologists - who battled to keep
the nation fit and well in wartime. As Laura Dawes shows, these men
and women not only helped to win the war, they paved the way for
the birth of the NHS and the development of the welfare state.
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