THE HOME FRONT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, 1938-1945. by Longmate, Norman, editor

Chatto & Windus, London, 1981. 240 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Ex-Library. ISBN 0701125535 B&w photographs, cartoons. "Norman Longmate has established himself as the leading authority on the ways in which the Second World War affected the civilian populatio n in (England). In the course of his researches, he has amassed a vast collection of first-hand accounts in which those who were there described and evoke their experiences....The subjects covered include the Home Guard, air raids, Morris o n S h e l t e r s and Woolton Pies, jam-making ladies from the WI, life in a munitions factory, the evacuation of children (and civil servants), the arrival of the Americans, and - most movingly of all - the long-awaited declaration of peace....( re ca l ls ) th os e ye ar s to those who lived through them - the horror, the humour, the grindingly hard slog of everyday existence - while providing the perfect introduction to those for whom the war is a distant slice of history." Ex-library co py - g ho st la bel ma rk an d w rinkling on free front endpaper, libray stamp on copyright page, finger mark on page 146, one or two pages with tiny light stain, small date stamp on rear pastedown, last page of index and free rear endpaper missi ng, rea r i nsi de hing e is ce llot aped , old tape residue on boards, moderate edge wear, book lightly cocked, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, bump at bottom of front hinge area, tiny mark on top of textblock, partially erased stamp mark on bo ttom of t extb lock . Dust jacke t is pric e cli pped, has light edge wrinkling, very light rubbing and wrinkling on panels, one tiny chip. Reading copy only..