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Ministry of Morale: Home Front Morale and the Ministry of Information in World War II (1979), Maguire, Lori. "'We Shall Fight': A Rhetorical Analysis of Churchill's Famous Speech." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 17#2 (2014): 255-286. Nicholas, Siân. The Echo of War: Home Front Propaganda and the Wartime BBC, 1939-1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1996 ...
Life on the home front during World War II was a significant part of the war effort for all participants and had a major impact on the outcome of the war. Governments became involved with new issues such as rationing, manpower allocation, home defense, evacuation in the face of air raids, and response to occupation by an enemy power.
During World War I, the British Shell Crisis of 1915 and the appointment of David Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions was a recognition that the whole economy would have to be geared for war if the Allies were to prevail on the Western Front. The United States home front during World War I saw the first ring World War II.
London in World War II (2 C, 29 P) Pages in category "United Kingdom home front during World War II" The following 111 pages are in this category, out of 111 total.
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An early parade of the LDV in July 1940. The committee arose from a desire by the American public to provide private arms for the defense of British homes. [1] Offers had been made to the British Purchasing Commission (BPC), responsible for co-ordinating the British procurement of war supplies in North America, by the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (CDAAA) in early July.
1939 Home Defence poster. During British re-armament in the mid-1930s, the Royal Defence Corps was disbanded and replaced by the National Defence Companies, a part-time force which was part of the Territorial Army (TA) and open to ex-servicemen between the ages of 45 and 60 years. [4]
British culture in the Second World War (1999) Jones, Helen (2006). British civilians in the front line: air raids, productivity and wartime culture, 1939-45. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-7290-1. Levine, Joshua. The Secret History of the Blitz (2015). Marwick, Arthur. The Home Front: The British and the Second World War. (1976).