Sport and the Home Front - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sport and the Home Front write by Matthew Taylor. This book was released on 2020-05-31. Sport and the Home Front available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment of sport in government policy, media representations and the everyday lives of wartime citizens. Acknowledged as a core component of British culture, sport was also frequently criticised, marginalised and downplayed, existing in a constant state of tension between notions of normality and exceptionality, routine and disruption, the everyday and the extraordinary. The author argues that sport played an important, yet hitherto neglected, role in maintaining the morale of the British people and providing a reassuring sense of familiarity at a time of mass anxiety and threat. Through the conflict, sport became increasingly regarded as characteristic of Britishness; a symbol of the ‘ordinary’ everyday lives in defence of which the war was being fought. Utilised to support the welfare of war workers, the entertainment of service personnel at home and abroad and the character formation of schoolchildren and young citizens, sport permeated wartime culture, contributing to new ways in which the British imagined the past, present and future. Using a wide range of personal and public records – from diary writing and club minute books to government archives – this book breaks new ground in both the history of the British home front and the history of sport.
All Quiet on the Home Front
All Quiet on the Home Front - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All Quiet on the Home Front write by Richard van Emden. This book was released on 2017-04-30. All Quiet on the Home Front available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A “fascinating” look at hardship, heroism, and civilian life in England during the Great War (World War One Illustrated). The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British civilians during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, people who were there speak about experiences and events that have remained buried for decades. Their testimony shows the same candor and courage we have become accustomed to hearing from military veterans of this war. Those interviewed include a survivor of a Zeppelin raid in 1915; a Welsh munitions worker recruited as a girl; and a woman rescued from a bombed school after five days. There are also accounts of rural famine, bereavement, and the effects on families back home—and even the story of a woman who planned to kill her family to save them further suffering.
V for Victory
V for Victory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook V for Victory write by Stan Cohen. This book was released on 1991. V for Victory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tells of the Amerian efforts to provide equipment for World War II and tells of the situation in America at the time.
Design for Victory
Design for Victory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Design for Victory write by William L. Bird. This book was released on 1998-06. Design for Victory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The poster - inexpensive, colorful, and immediate - was an ideal medium for delivering messages about Americans' duties on the home front during World War II. Design for Victory presents more than 150 of these stunning images - many never reproduced since their first issue - culled from the collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein delve beneath the surface of these colorful graphics, telling the stories behind their production and revealing how posters fulfilled the goals and needs of their creators. The authors describe the history of how specific posters were conceived and received, focusing on the workings of the wartime advertising profession and demonstrating how posters often reflected uneasy relations between labor and management.
The Home Front, U.S.A.
The Home Front, U.S.A. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Home Front, U.S.A. write by Ronald H. Bailey. This book was released on 1977. The Home Front, U.S.A. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
