Homefront Yorkshire 1939-45

No event in history had such a profound and long-term effect as World War Two, it's consequences still helping to shape the modern world. With our trade routes harassed by U-boats, our skies darkened by the Luftwaffe and our beaches imperilled by the threat of invasion, the period from 1939 to 1945 was a frightening one for ordinary civilians. But the people of Yorkshire responded to the challenge with incredible fortitude, camaraderie, determination and good humour, the tireless efforts of armies of civilians keeping the British lamp of freedom trimmed. This unique compendium of many never-before-published personal reminiscences from the Yorkshire home front paints an astonishing picture of life in the war torn county. It records the tender and sometimes hilarious adventures of boys and girls, the selfless grind of workers in the mines and factories, the exhausting labours in allotments and fields and the bravery and dedication of the emergency services and other dedicated professionals who just put on their tin hats and worked on. Consigned to the memory banks for nearly seven decades, these stirring remembrances reveal the wealth of ingenuity and invention and the passionate bulldog spirit that kept our hopes alive during our darkest hours, the author also touching on the less heroic aspects of the period.

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Some books that may interest you

The Battle of the Lys 1918: South By: Chris Baker	London at War By: Alan Brooks	Walking into Hell 1st July 1916 By: Edward G.D. Liveing, Sir Philip Gibbs
Panther Tanks By: Dennis Oliver	Once a Hussar By: Ray Ellis	The Spartan Supremacy 412-371 BC By: Bob Bennett, Mike Roberts
The Battle That Won the War - Bellenglise By: Peter Rostron	Seafarers' Voices 6: Whale Hunter By: Nelson Cole Haley Edited by: Vincent McInerney	Tyneside Irish By: John Sheen