HOME FRONT 1914-1918: How Britain Survived the Great War

A well illustrated concise social history of Britain in the Great War - covers the far reaching social changes, from working women to air raids - that the war wrought.

Much has been written about the Home Front in besieged Britain during the Second World War, but there is less in print about the arguably greater changes wrought by the Great War. This concise and graphically illustrated book fills the gap. The story covers every aspect of the war at home, from Lord Kitchener’s wake-up call for civilian volunteers in 1914 to become soldiers; through to the wild celebrations that greeted the Armistice in 1918. Author Ian Beckett, an acknowledged authority on the war, charts the huge changes that the war scored in British society - from the armies of women who went to work for the first time, filling the places of their absent menfolk in factories and offices; to the shortages wrought by the German U-boat campaign; and the increasing power of the state over individual lives heralded by the Defence of the Realm Act - DORA - at the outbreak of war. The war introduced such unwelcome novelties to Britain as conscription, aerial bombardment , restrictions on pub opening hours, propaganda films, British Summer Time and rationing. Beckett covers them all .

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Product Code:	10554
Author:	Ian Beckett
ISBN:	978 1 903365 81 6
Format:	224pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £19.99
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