{"product_id":"9781803995120-wartime-christmas","title":"A Wartime Christmas","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShare 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout, \u003cem\u003eA Wartime Christmas\u003c\/em\u003e showcases the hope, warmth and colour that the occasion inspired during those bleak times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40995222782049,"sku":"9781803995120","price":9.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_30152945.jpg?v=1726732073","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781803995120-wartime-christmas","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}