TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taggart,Caroline
TI  - Wartime summer: true stories of love, life and loss on the British Home Front 
SN  - 9781789461244 (pbk.) :
AV  - GV186 
U1  - 306.4812 TAG 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - London
PB  - John Blake
KW  - Vacations
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Travel and Tourism
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 1918-1945
N1  - Originally published: 2019; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - We take summer holidays for granted but, back in the 1940s, the picture was very different. War had gripped Britain. Wave after wave of bombs fell, beaches were closed off, and petrol was rationed by the forbidding question, 'Is your journey really necessary?' But the summer days (with double summer time) seemed to go on forever, war or no war - and British families were determined to make the best of their paralysed country. For evacuated children, this meant freedom that is unimaginable today: wandering at will, discovering wildlife in fields and ponds, foraging from orchards and hedgerows and swimming in the streams. Elsewhere, country estates were requisitioned for the war efforts, the tennis courts given over for training and the Lord and Lady of the manor sent packing! In this book, Caroline Taggart shows us how Britons succeeded in keeping up spirits in spite of the constant devastation of battle
ER  -