{"product_id":"9780712652841-peoples-warthe","title":"The People's War","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBritain 1939-1945. The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'. In this title, the author presents not only the great events and leading figures but also the oddities and banalities of daily life on the Home Front, and in particular the parts played by ordinary people: air raid wardens and Home Guards, factory workers and farmers, housewives and pacifists. \u003cp\u003eThe Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this comprehensive and engrossing narrative Angus Calder presents not only the great events and leading figures but also the oddities and banalities of daily life on the Home Front, and in particular the parts played by ordinary people: air raid wardens and Home Guards, factory workers and farmers, housewives and pacifists. Above all this revisionist and important work reveals how, in those six years, the British people came closer to discarding their social conventions than at any time since Cromwell's republic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the John Llewellyn Rhys prize in 1970, \u003ci\u003eThe People’s War\u003c\/i\u003e draws on oral testimony and a mass of neglected social documentation to question the popularised image of national unity in the fight for victory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30347639554145,"sku":"9780712652841","price":21.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_6739132_jpg.jpg?v=1707356048","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780712652841-peoples-warthe","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}