This book provides genuine insight into life on the Home Front between 1939 and 1945. Drawing on first-hand accounts and archives of the Allpresses - William and Alice and their nine surviving children - a typical large London family.
Covers the key themes of evacuation and conscription, air-raids and the realities of being bombed out, rationing and 'Make do and Mend', as well as the work of the Women's Voluntary Service, the transport network, factory work, and public health services during wartime.
Maureen Waller (Author) , John Lidstone (Compiled by)
Hardback 224 pages
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