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Military Book Review Britain 1940: The Decisive Year on the Home Front


by Anton Rippon
Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2020. Pp. xvi, 194+.
Notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 152676770839.95
The British Home Front during the ‘Phoney War” and the “Blitz”
While concentrating on the events of 1940 proper, British journalist and author Rippon takes a look at life in Britain from the outbreak of W.W. II in September of 1939 through the end of 1940. He opens with an account of events during the Winter of 1939-1940, the worst in Europe in more than a century.
Rippon then devotes individual chapters to look at various aspects of life during the year. We get a look at rationing and wartime improvisation, the participation of women in society and industry, sports, the “problem” of conscientious objectors, the origins and rise of the Home Guard, air raid precautions, the question of “enemy aliens” (many of whom were actually fugitives from fascism), scrap drives, trade unioni ....

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