《后方面貌》展现了二战期间英国后方的人物、战时组织、事件、生活和工作的迷人视角。这是一个普通人在非常时期的故事，通过一系列以前未出版的罕见照片、插图和蜉蝣来讲述。如果你想知道空袭管理员、救护人员、家庭警卫、消防员、特别警察、妇女志愿服务和妇女陆军是如何被招募和训练的，他们是如何穿制服的，以及他们在战争中的职责是什么，这本书适合你。
根据作者自己的大量原始照片、培训手册、文件、数十年的研究和对在场人员的采访，有一些著名事件的故事，如伦敦闪电战和全国各地许多其他通常不太为人所知的事件，其中一些非常感人，有些令人痛心，有些则显示了帮助英国度过最黑暗时期的人们的善良和无私的勇敢。图像和故事的结合生动地将城市、城镇和农村的人们在战时经历的疏散、配给、停电和空袭的经历带到了生活中，触动了每个人的生活。这本书是任何家庭历史学家、收藏家、重演者书架上的宝贵补充。
Faces of the Home Front, 1939–1945
Faces of the Home Front presents a fascinating insight into the people, wartime organizations, events, life and work on the British Home Front during the Second World War. This is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times told through an array of previously unpublished rare photographs, illustrations and ephemera. If you have wondered how Air Raid Wardens, Ambulance crews, Home Guard, Firemen, Special Constables, Women’s Voluntary Service and the Women’s Land Army were recruited and trained, how they were uniformed and what their duties entailed in wartime were, this is the book for you.
Drawing on the authors’ own extensive archives of original photographs, training manuals, documents, decades of research and interviews with those who were there, there are stories of well-known events such as the Blitz on London and many other often lesser known events and incidents around the country, some deeply moving, some harrowing and some that show how the kindness and selfless bravery of people that helped get Britain through its darkest hours. The combination of images and stories vividly bring to life the experiences of people in cities, towns and countryside in wartime as they experienced evacuation, rationing, the black-out and air raids touched the lives of everyone. This volume is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of any family historian, collector, re-enactor.
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