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Subject(s)

• World War, 1914-1918—England—London [Browse]
• World War, 1939-1945—England—London [Browse]
• London (England)—Buildings, structures, etc—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Memorials—England—London—Pictorial works [Browse]
• London (England)—Description and travel [Browse]

Summary note

"The aim of this book is simple. It is to provide a selection or atlas of photographs of items relating to the home front in London during the two world wars. Most importantly, these items must be reasonably available for viewing to the general public in real life. There are (essentially) no military memorials. There is little social history since it has been done before. The area of interest is that under the governance of the old London County Council (which ran the central part of London during the period covering WWI and WWII), plus the city of London"--Preface.

Notes

Includes chronology.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-159) and index.

Contents

• Prologue : 'Black Sunday'
• The dress rehearsal : the First World War
• The inter-war years
• The London Blitz, and after
• V for revenge : the V weapons
• Give me shelter
• Scars, shells and carbuncles
• A home from home : exile and headquarters
• WW2 civilian war graves and memorials
• Odds and ends, other memorials and fakes
• Be your own blitz detective ('BYOBD').

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ISBN

• 9781845631390 (pbk.)
• 1845631390 (pbk.)

LCCN

2012371108

OCLC

751500862

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