Back in Blighty
Back in Blighty

Author: Gerard DeGroot

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1448161207

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World War One had a devastating, cataclysmic impact on the world and the British people. As its reverberations were so long-lasting and significant, it is easy to assume that the social consequences were as profound. In this highly readable and moving survey of life back at home during the First World War, Gerard DeGroot challenges this assumption, finding pre-war social structures were surprisingly resilient. Despite economic and technological changes, the British peoplemanaged to cling onto their usual ways of life as much as possible in this new world. Back in Blighty has been fully revised to take into account new scholarship and historical perspectives, and is full of fascinating glimpses into everyday life during the war. The lives of ordinary people are illuminated and given historical significance in this powerful portrait of the British people and their culture.

Dear Old Blighty
Dear Old Blighty

Author: E. S. Turner

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2012-06-19

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0571296939

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'So the recruiters, rolling up their sleeves, varied the appeal to pride, honour, manliness and vengeance with warnings to eschew shame, disgrace, betrayal, sloth and cowardice. From a poster showing the ruins of Belgium a woman asked, 'Will you go or must I?'' First published in 1980, Dear Old Blighty is E.S. Turner's superb account of life 'on the home front' in Britain during the Great War of 1914-1918: a time of conscription, propaganda, 'spy fever', industrial unrest in the arms factories, and grieving families turning to spiritualism. When even the blind were being recruited to serve as listening sentries for approaching Zeppelins, all were expected to contribute to the war effort; and, as Turner shows us, the means of exhortation (and the penalties for non-compliance) were many. 'No matter where you open a page, you learn something you feel you should have known.' Miles Kington, Independent

Blighty's Railways
Blighty's Railways

Author: Alexander J Mullay

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2014-06-15

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1445638746

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Alexander Mullay tells the story of Britain's Railways during the First World War. From troop and hospital trains to carrying munitions and freight, the railways were vital.

Dear Old Blighty
Dear Old Blighty

Author: Mike Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781781220108

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An in-depth look at the experience of the civilian life of Britain throughout the four momentous years of World War 1

Back to Blighty (Classic Reprint)
Back to Blighty (Classic Reprint)

Author: A. J. Dawson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-24

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780365519843

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Excerpt from Back to Blighty Many wonders have been produced by this great war, including the bringing home into the sanctuary of the hearts and minds of practically all the men, women and children of the most peaceable nation in the world some understanding of What war - life and death war on a great scale means. It is fully a century since the little word war has had anything approximately resembling the same personal significance for the ordinary run of people in these islands that it has to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Hallo Sausages
Hallo Sausages

Author: Jemima Dury

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1408812142

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Presents the complete lyrics of rock musician Ian Dury, along with handwritten notes, candid photographs, and an audio CD featuring previously unreleased material.

Life in the Garden
Life in the Garden

Author: Penelope Lively

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-06-12

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0525558381

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From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards of her childhood home in Cairo to a family cottage in Somerset, to her own gardens in Oxford and London, Lively conducts an expert tour, taking us from Eden to Sissinghurst and into her own backyard, traversing the lives of writers like Virginia Woolf and Philip Larkin while imparting her own sly and spare wisdom. "Her body of work proves that certain themes never go out of fashion," writes the New York Times Book Review, as true of this beautiful volume as of the rest of the Lively canon. Now in her eighty-fourth year, Lively muses, "To garden is to elide past, present, and future; it is a defiance of time."

Blighty
Blighty

Author: Gerard J. De Groot

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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As well as incorporating the latest scholarship, he makes rich, and often very moving, use of primary sources - newspapers, poetry (both high and low), literature, memoirs and letters - to illuminate the attitudes of society at all its levels, not merely the elite and the articulate. He reveals the extent to which the dominant social force in Britain during the war was not change but continuity.