Real life stories from the people who lived through extraordinary and terrible times – the air raid wardens, the Home Guard, the Land Army, the families pulled apart and the communities brought together. These first-hand recollections are all the more powerful because they aren’t tinged with nostalgia but taken from letters and diaries written at the time and provide a vivid insight into life in wartime Britain.
It features archive photographs and previously unpublished material from private collections.
Republished by Readers Digest in a new highly-illustrated edition as The People’s War with added sections.
Felicity Goodall 