Books : History : World History : General AAS

• Home
• US Store
• Electronics
• Computers
• Sitemap

Books : History : World History : General AAS

• A History of Modern Britain

  Andrew Marr

  
  
   

• Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler

  
  
   

• I Never Knew That About England

  Christopher Winn

  
  
   

• The Genealogist's Internet

  Peter Christian

  
  
   

• Eating For Victory: Healthy Home Front Cooking on War Rations (Official Wwii Info Reproductns)

  Foreword by Jill Norman

  
  How would you survive on wartime rations? Eating for Victory (subtitled Healthy Home Front Cooking on War Rations) makes for absolutely fascinating reading -- and may answer the question as to what the reader might have made of these more straitened times.

  The book reproduces official Second World War instruction leaflets (which have never before been published in book form) and demonstrates how millions of people in Britain endured food shortages during the hardships of WWII. With a perceptive foreword by Jill Norman, Eating for Victory shows that the government endeavoured to keep morale high by producing a host of the upbeat leaflets included here on such subjects as `using up stale crusts' and `foods for fitness' (the leaflets are most amusing in this area, showing how much thinking has changed over the years -- the use of fats and lard looks very quaint in these more enlightened times). But what gives particular pleasure here is the verbatim reproduction of the original artwork and typefaces, which vividly conjures a lost era. To read this entertaining little book is like climbing into a time machine to take us back to the 1940s. --Barry Forshaw

  
   

• Fifty Things You Need to Know About British History

  Hugh Williams

  
  
   

• Make Do and Mend: Keeping Family and Home Afloat on War Rations (Official Wwii Info Reproductns)

  Foreword by Jill Norman

  
  
   

• The Strange Laws of Old England

  Nigel Cawthorne

  
  
   

• Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chamber

  Filip Muller

  
  
   

• The Fall:the Insanity of the Ego in Human History and the Dawning of a New Era: The Insanity of the Ego in Human History and the Dawning of a New Era

  Steve Taylor

  
  
   

• A Little History of the World

  E H Gombrich

  
  
   

• A History of Modern Britain

  Andrew Marr

  
  
   

• The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left

  Ed Husain

  
  
   

• History of the Peloponnesian War (Classics)

  Thucydides

  
  
   

• History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

  John Arnold

  
  
   

• The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History

  John Tosh

  
  
   

• Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties

  Peter Hennessy

  
  
   

• The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

  Ian Shaw

  
  
   

• Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth

  Christopher Booker, Richard North

  
  
   

• Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

  Anna Funder