A Wartime Christmas 1939 1945

Author : Mike Brown
Publisher : Pitkin
ISBN 13 : 9781841653846
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Wartime Christmas 1939-1945 written by Mike Brown and published by Pitkin. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here we trace the history of the Second World War through six wartime Christmases, with fascinating information on how people in Britain, Allied troops at home and British servicemen aboard celebrated the festive season. This highly illustrated and informative guide explores how people made the most of trying times, hanging paper chains in air-raid shelters and enriching Christmas cakes with gravy browning. Through rationing, bad news and good, absences, losses and homecomings, Christmas cheer bubbled up during these dark years. For many, of course, Christmas proved a sad time, with reflections on the years of peace gone by, toasting loved ones far away, and thinking of those who would never come home. But for six years Christmas and the New Year were celebrated with song, jokes, simple gifts, and the wish that ‘next year the war will be over’.

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Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781803995120
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Wartime Christmas written by and published by History Press. This book was released on 2023-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic look at Christmas during wartime, based on the memories of wartime veterans and their families, and including accounts of Christmas under fire, Christmas in POW camps and Christmas on the home front

Author : Mike Brown
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752495488
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas on the Home Front written by Mike Brown and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon personal recollections, contemporary Mass Observation reports, newspaper articles and advertisements, personal and archive photographs, Mike Brown and Carol Harris look at each wartime Christmas on the British Home Front, from 1939 to 1944.

Author : Carol Rivers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750539128
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Wartime Christmas written by Carol Rivers and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling tale of ordinary East Enders caught up in extraordinary times, from the Sunday Times bestselling author.

Author : Astrid Lindgren
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300224486
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Diaries, 1939–1945 written by Astrid Lindgren and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These personal diaries by the author of Pippi Longstocking chronicle her experiences in Europe during WWII and her astute observations of the conflict. Before she became internationally known for her Pippi Longstocking books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak of the Second World War. The diaries she kept throughout the hostilities offer her unique perspective—as a civilian, a mother, and an aspiring writer—on the devastating conflict. Lindgren emerges as a morally courageous critic of violence and war, as well as a deeply sensitive and keen observer of world affairs. We hear her thoughts about rationing, blackouts, the Soviet invasion of Finland, and the nature of evil, as well as of her personal heartbreaks, financial struggles, and trials as a mother and writer. Posthumously published in Sweden to great international acclaim, these diaries were called in the Swedish press an “unparalleled war narrative,” “unprecedented.” and a “shocking history lesson.” Illustrated with family photographs, newspaper clippings, and facsimile pages, Lindgren’s diaries provide an intensely personal and vivid account of Europe during the war.

Author : Stanley Weintraub
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306820625
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pearl Harbor Christmas written by Stanley Weintraub and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas 1941 came little more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The shock -- in some cases overseas, elation -- was worldwide. While Americans attempted to go about celebrating as usual, the reality of the just-declared war was on everybody's mind. United States troops on Wake Island were battling a Japanese landing force and, in the Philippines, losing the fight to save Luzon. In Japan, the Pearl Harbor strike force returned to Hiroshima Bay and toasted its sweeping success. Across the Atlantic, much of Europe was frozen in grim Nazi occupation. Just three days before Christmas, Churchill surprised Roosevelt with an unprecedented trip to Washington, where they jointly lit the White House Christmas tree. As the two Allied leaders met to map out a winning wartime strategy, the most remarkable Christmas of the century played out across the globe. Pearl Harbor Christmas is a deeply moving and inspiring story about what it was like to live through a holiday season few would ever forget.

Author : Maria and Andrew Hubert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753154205
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Wartime Christmas written by Maria and Andrew Hubert and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who lived through wartime Christmases the celebrations during those years had an especially poignant flavour. This anthology includes memories of wartime veterans, of Christmas under fire, in POW and internment camps, in army hospitals, in the desert with the Christmas tree and with servicemen and women fortunate enough to spend Christmas in Bethlehem. At home, Christmas was a story of the evacuee children whose Christmases were never to be the same again, little ones who discovered Santa hadn't called and the wives, mums and sweethearts whose best Christmas gift was the safe return of their men.

Author : Mike Guardia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999644393
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World War II Night Before Christmas written by Mike Guardia and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this satirical rendition of "The Night Before Christmas," Santa makes a surprise visit to the Allied troops in Normandy on Christmas Eve, 1944.

Author : Mark J. Crowley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783275871
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Experiences of the Second World War written by Mark J. Crowley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.

Author : Maria Hubert
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 1803995130
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Wartime Christmas written by Maria Hubert and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who lived through wartime Christmases the celebrations during those years had an especially poignant flavour. This unique anthology recreates those times of heartache and brief moments of pleasurable escape and happiness. Share with wartime veterans and their families memories of Christmas under fire; read about the gift of a pig for POWs' dinner from the Japanese emperor and how Glenn Miller's disappearance almost ruined the AEF Christmas show; enjoy ENSA veterans' anecdotes of Christmas concerts in the most awkward situations. From Christmas on the Russian Front, on board ship in heaving seas and a soldier's experiences in Egypt, 'It ain't arf hot' pantomimes and the Archbishop of York's Christmas message in 1940, to an account of life in the Warsaw ghetto, here is a collection of what made Christmas special during the years of the Second World War. Illustrated throughout, A Wartime Christmas showcases the hope, warmth and colour that the occasion inspired during those bleak times.