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Summary Book Review Great Expectations by :
Download or read book Great Expectations written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan:
Download or read book The Kitchen Front written by Jennifer Ryan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: From Jennifer Ryan, the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir, comes an unforgettable story inspired by the true events of a BBC-sponsored wartime cooking competition. ‘The Great British Bake Off set in World War Two . . . an enchanting hug of a novel’ – Cathy Kelly, author of Other Women ‘A gorgeous novel about making the best of things during difficult times, whilst celebrating the importance of sisterhood and friendship’ – Jill Mansell, author of Should I Tell You? Some wars will be fought at home . . . Two years into the Second World War, and German U-boats are frequently disrupting Britain’s supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio programme called The Kitchen Front launches a new cooking contest – and the grand prize is a job as the programme’s first-ever female co-host. For young widow Audrey, winning the competition could be a chance to pay off her husband’s debts and keep a roof over her children’s heads. However, her estranged sister, Gwendoline, is equally set on success even if her own kitchen maid, Nell, is competing against her. And then there is Zelda, a London-trained chef desperate to succeed in a male-dominated profession – and harbouring a secret that will change everything . . .
Summary Book Review The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan:
Download or read book The Kitchen Front written by Jennifer Ryan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir comes an unforgettable novel of a BBC-sponsored wartime cooking competition and the four women who enter for a chance to better their lives. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GOOD HOUSEKEEPING • “This story had me so hooked, I literally couldn’t put it down.”—NPR Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses: The Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front is holding a cooking contest—and the grand prize is a job as the program’s first-ever female co-host. For four very different women, winning the competition would present a crucial chance to change their lives. For a young widow, it’s a chance to pay off her husband’s debts and keep a roof over her children’s heads. For a kitchen maid, it’s a chance to leave servitude and find freedom. For a lady of the manor, it’s a chance to escape her wealthy husband’s increasingly hostile behavior. And for a trained chef, it’s a chance to challenge the men at the top of her profession. These four women are giving the competition their all—even if that sometimes means bending the rules. But with so much at stake, will the contest that aims to bring the community together only serve to break it apart?
Summary Book Review Eating for Victory by Amy Bentley:
Download or read book Eating for Victory written by Amy Bentley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Mandatory food rationing during World War II significantly challenged the image of the United States as a land of plenty and collapsed the boundaries between women's public and private lives by declaring home production and consumption to be political activities. Examining the food-related propaganda surrounding rationing, Eating for Victory decodes the dual message purveyed by the government and the media: while mandatory rationing was necessary to provide food for U.S. and Allied troops overseas, women on the home front were also "required" to provide their families with nutritious food. Amy Bentley reveals the role of the Wartime Homemaker as a pivotal component not only of World War II but also of the development of the United States into a superpower.
Summary Book Review Millions Like Us'? by Visiting Senior Fellow Department of Psychology Nicky Hayes:
Download or read book Millions Like Us'? written by Visiting Senior Fellow Department of Psychology Nicky Hayes and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This collection of essays brings together the latest historical research on cultural production and reception during the Second World War. It covers the way in which cultural provision was viewed by the labour movement and industry.
Summary Book Review The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945 by Lisa L. Ossian:
Download or read book The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945 written by Lisa L. Ossian and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: As Americans geared up for World War II, each state responded according to its economy and circumstances—as well as the disposition of its citizens. This book considers the war years in Iowa by looking at activity on different home fronts and analyzing the resilience of Iowans in answering the call to support the war effort. With its location in the center of the country, far from potentially threatened coasts, Iowa was also the center of American isolationism—historically Republican and resistant to involvement in another European war. Yet Iowans were quick to step up, and Lisa Ossian draws on historical archives as well as on artifacts of popular culture to record the rhetoric and emotion of their support. Ossian shows how Iowans quickly moved from skepticism to overwhelming enthusiasm for the war and answered the call on four fronts: farms, factories, communities, and kitchens. Iowa’s farmers faced labor and machinery shortages, yet produced record amounts of crops and animals—even at the expense of valuable topsoil. Ordnance plants turned out bombs and machine gun bullets. Meanwhile, communities supported war bond and scrap drives, while housewives coped with rationing, raised Victory gardens, and turned to home canning. The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939–1945 depicts real people and their concerns, showing the price paid in physical and mental exhaustion and notes the heavy toll exacted on Iowa’s sons who fell in battle. Ossian also considers the relevance of such issues as race, class, and gender—particularly the role of women on the home front and the recruitment of both women and blacks for factory work—taking into account a prevalent suspicion of ethnic groups by the state’s largely homogeneous population. The fact that Iowans could become loyal citizen soldiers—forming an Industrial and Defense Commission even before Pearl Harbor—speaks not only to the patriotism of these sturdy midwesterners but also to the overall resilience of Americans. In unraveling how Iowans could so overwhelmingly support the war, Ossian digs deep into history to show us the power of emotion—and to help us better understand why World War II is consistently remembered as “the Good War.”
Summary Book Review Second Suburb by Dianne Suzette Harris:
Download or read book Second Suburb written by Dianne Suzette Harris and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Second Suburb uncovers the unique story of Levittown, Pennsylvania, and its significance to American social, architectural, environmental, and political history.
Summary Book Review Austerity in Britain by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska:
Download or read book Austerity in Britain written by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Austerity in Britain is the first book to explore the entire episode of rationing, austerity, and fair shares from 1939 until 1955. These policies were central to the British war effort and to post-war reconstruction. The book analyses the connections between government policy, consumption, gender, and party politics during and after the Second World War. The economic background to austerity, the policy's administration, and changes in consumption standards are examined. Rationing resulted in at times extensive black markets and popular attitudes to the policy ranged from wartime acquiescence to post-war discontent. Austerity in Britain qualifies the myth of common sacrifice on the home front and highlights the limitations of the fair-shares policy which failed to achieve genuine equality between classes or between men and women. The continuation of rationing and austerity policies after 1945 was central to party politics. Disaffection, particularly among women, undermined Labour's popularity while the Conservatives' critique of austerity was instrumental to the party's victories at the general elections of 1951 and 1955.
Summary Book Review 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: History by Clare Horrie:
Download or read book 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: History written by Clare Horrie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Teaching history without reference to genuine historical sources from the relevant period is unimaginable, as engaging with real historical material can inspire and captivate pupils' interest. By introducing them to a source-based approach, their learning can be transformed and their historical skills developed. 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: History is brimming with imaginative ideas to teach history in the primary classroom. With each idea based on an original historical source from The National Archives, this book takes a skills-based approach that will not only help pupils understand the methods of historical enquiry, which is a key aim of the National Curriculum, but also make history real, captivating and exciting. Themed to cover different source types, including photographs, government reports, cartoons, royal seals, manuscripts, and private and official letters, this book is ideal for building a picture of the past. The historical sources can be previewed in the book and downloaded from a companion website, allowing them to be integrated into teaching tools.
Summary Book Review Domesticating the Airwaves by Maggie Andrews:
Download or read book Domesticating the Airwaves written by Maggie Andrews and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: An exploration of how the domestic reception of broadcasting shaped the medium, from the 1920s to the present day.
Summary Book Review Wartime by Juliet Gardiner:
Download or read book Wartime written by Juliet Gardiner and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war on the Home Front. The book has been commended for its inclusion of many under-described aspects of the Home Front, and alongside familiar stories of food shortages, evacuation and the arrival of the GIs, are stories of Conscientious Objectors, persecuted Italians living in Britain and Lumber Jills working in the New Forest. Drawing on a multitude of sources, many previously unpublished, she tells the story of those six gruelling years in voices from the Orkney Islands to Cornwall, from the Houses of Parliament to the Nottinghamshire mines.
Summary Book Review Britain's War by Daniel Todman:
Download or read book Britain's War written by Daniel Todman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2020 A SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'A stunning achievement' Max Hastings, Sunday Times Part Two of Daniel Todman's epic history of the Second World War opens with one of the greatest disasters in British military history - the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Unlike the aftermath of Dunkirk, there was no redeeming narrative available here - Britain had been defeated by a far smaller Japanese force in her grandly proclaimed, invincible Asian 'fortress'. The unique skill of Daniel Todman's history lies in its never losing sight of the inter-connectedness of the British experience. The agony of Singapore, for example, is seen through the eyes of its inhabitants, of its defenders, of Churchill's Cabinet and of ordinary people at home. Each stage of the war, from the nadir of early 1942 to the great series of victories in 1944-5 and on to Indian independence, is described both as it was understood at the time and in the light of the very latest historical research. Britain's War is a triumph of narrative, empathy and research, as gripping in its handling of individual witnesses to the war - those doomed to struggle with bombing, rationing, exhausting work and above all the absence of millions of family members - as of the gigantic military, social, technological and economic forces that swept the conflict along. It is the definitive account of a drama which reshaped our country. 'I cannot recommend this history highly enough' Keith Lowe, Literary Review
Summary Book Review Consumers' Guide by :
Download or read book Consumers' Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review Public Issue Radio by H. Chignell:
Download or read book Public Issue Radio written by H. Chignell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Based on original and previously unseen written and sound archives and interviews with former and current radio producers and presenters, Public Issue Radio addresses the controversial question of the political leanings of current affairs programmes, and asks if Analysis became an early platform for both Thatcherite and Blairite ideas.
Summary Book Review The Texas Criminal Reports by Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals:
Download or read book The Texas Criminal Reports written by Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review Professional Builder & Apartment Business by :
Download or read book Professional Builder & Apartment Business written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Issues for Jan. 1973-May 1977 include section: Industrialized building.
Summary Book Review The Journal of the Royal Dublin Society by Royal Dublin Society:
Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Dublin Society written by Royal Dublin Society and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: