Make Do and Send: Nostalgic Letters on Fifteen Years of Rationing in Britain - Hardcover

Rantzen, Esther

 
9781783340866: Make Do and Send: Nostalgic Letters on Fifteen Years of Rationing in Britain
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 178334086X ISBN 13: 9781783340866
Verlag: Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This engaging collection of letters gives a quirky picture of family life in Britain under fifteen years of rationing. Everyone and almost everything was affected, from pets to fashion, corsets and turn-ups, to cigarettes, restaurants, heating and petrol, and the availability of fruit, eggs, vegetables and bread, and much more. Millions of people coped with what they had. With direct candour, they wrote letters when they thought improvements could be made, right from the start of rationing, in 1939, until all restrictions were lifted in 1954. In these amusing, honest, surprising, poignant and occasionally hilarious letters you'll find anything from concerns about socks for the Home Guard, children holding up a banana skin for a refill at the greengrocer's, to fear of pets choking when rubber bands reappeared after the War. Slip back in time and enjoy!

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Verlag
Gibson Square Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
178334086X
ISBN 13 
9781783340866
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
204
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