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Author | : Stan Cohen |
Publisher | : Pictorial Histories Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download V for Victory Book 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.
Author | : Aaron Hiltner |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022668718X |
Download Taking Leave, Taking Liberties Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be “overpaid, oversexed, and over here.” But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn’t only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by the “good war.” To the contrary, millions of American and Allied troops regularly poured into ports like New York and Los Angeles while on leave. Euphemistically called “friendly invasions,” these crowds of men then forced civilians to contend with the same kinds of crime and sexual assault unfolding in places like Britain, France, and Australia. With unsettling clarity, Aaron Hiltner reveals what American troops really did on the home front. While GIs are imagined to have spent much of the war in Europe or the Pacific, before the run-up to D-Day in the spring of 1944 as many as 75% of soldiers were stationed in US port cities, including more than three million who moved through New York City. In these cities, largely uncontrolled soldiers sought and found alcohol and sex, and the civilians living there—women in particular—were not safe from the violence fomented by these de facto occupying armies. Troops brought their pocketbooks and demand for “dangerous fun” to both red-light districts and city centers, creating a new geography of vice that challenged local police, politicians, and civilians. Military authorities, focused above all else on the war effort, invoked written and unwritten legal codes to grant troops near immunity to civil policing and prosecution. The dangerous reality of life on the home front was well known at the time—even if it has subsequently been buried beneath nostalgia for the “greatest generation.” Drawing on previously unseen military archival records, Hiltner recovers a mostly forgotten chapter of World War II history, demonstrating that the war’s ill effects were felt all over—including by those supposedly safe back home.
Author | : Ronald H. Bailey |
Publisher | : Seafarer Books |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780809424788 |
Download The Home Front, U.S.A. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William L. Bird |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1998-06 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781568981406 |
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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.
Author | : Julian M. Pleasants |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-09-28 |
Genre | : North Carolina |
ISBN | : 9780813064093 |
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Julian Pleasants offers a grassroots view of World War II's extraordinary impact on the homefront by focusing on the myriad ways, large and small, that the war changed the lives of average citizens. Using oral histories, interviews, and newspaper accounts, Pleasants connects family-level decisions to fundamental social, economic, industrial, and military growth that helped move the Tar hell state toward a more progressive future.
Author | : Susie Hodge |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2013-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178346979X |
Download The Home Front in World War Two Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book brings an era to life with vivid stories and information from those who were there. During World War Two, 90% of the British population remained civilians. The War affected daily life more than any other war had done before. The majority of British people faced this will fortitude, courage and determination and this is their story, the telling of events and situations that forced their ingenuity and survival instincts to rise. Make do and mend came to mean so much more than reworking old clothes and this book describes the enterprise that went on and has long been forgotten. From the coasts and the countryside, this is how those at home faced and fought the war passively, particularly women whose job it was to keep the home fires burning. These ordinary people were crucial to the war effort; without their courage and inventiveness, the outcome could have been very different. Packed with interviews, photographs and other firsthand information, this book will appeal to all those who were there, but even more for those with little or no experience of World War Two, who will gain insights into the humor, strength and creativity that emerged in the face of hardship and tragedy. The book explores how people lived in Britain during times of fear, hardship and uncertainty; how they functioned and supported those away fighting and how they dealt with the enormous challenges and adversities
Author | : Mark Jonathan Harris |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Includes primary sources on defense workers, women during the war, conscientious objectors, scrap metal collection and recycling, racial issues on the homefront, and civil defense.
Author | : James L. Abrahamson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Download The American Home Front Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The American Home Front is a comparative analysis of the economic, political, and social results of America's four principal wars, this study reveals the major issues faced by each wartime administration and sketches the consequences of the mobilization policies adopted. Each conflict occurred in unique circumstances, required varied policies, and produced different effects on American institutions."--Amazon.com.
Author | : Richard van Emden |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2017-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473891965 |
Download All Quiet on the Home Front Book 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.
Author | : Andrew E. Kersten |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2009-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0814748244 |
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One of the oldest, strongest, and largest labor organizations in the U.S., the American Federation of Labor (AFL) had 4 million members in over 20,000 union locals during World War II. The AFL played a key role in wartime production and was a major actor in the contentious relationship between the state, organized labor, and the working class in the 1940s. The war years are pivotal in the history of American labor, but books on the AFL’s experiences are scant, with far more on the radical Congress of Industrial Unions (CIO). Andrew E. Kersten closes this gap with Labor’s Home Front, challenging us to reconsider the AFL and its influence on twentieth-century history. Kersten details the union's contributions to wartime labor relations, its opposition to the open shop movement, divided support for fair employment and equity for women and African American workers, its constant battles with the CIO, and its significant efforts to reshape American society, economics, and politics after the war. Throughout, Kersten frames his narrative with an original, central theme: that despite its conservative nature, the AFL was dramatically transformed during World War II, becoming a more powerful progressive force that pushed for liberal change.