War on the Home Front

Juliet Gardiner is an historian and broadcaster. A former editor of History Today magazine, she is also the author of Wartime: Britain 1939-1945, "Over Here": GIs in Britain During the Second World War, The Children's War; The Animals' War and The Thirties: An Intimate Portrait. She was historical consultant for Channel Four's series The 1940s House and wrote the accompanying bestselling book. Juliet also wrote the book that accompanied Channel Four's series, The Edwardian Country House. Juliet lives in London.

Introduction; "Be Prepared"; "Get the Children Away"; The Phoney War; Military Service; Food on the Ration; "dig for Victory"; "Keeping Entertained"; A New Leader; Dunkirk; "Stay Put" - The Invasion Scare; The Home Guard; The Channel Islands; Spitfire Summer; The Enemy Within; The London Blitz; The Blitz in the Provinces; Air Raids; The Ministry of Information; Taking the War to Germany; Wartime Intelligence; Manpower Shortages; Women on the Front Line; Shortages and More Rationing; "Over Here" - GIs Come to Britain; Prisoners of War in Britain; D-Day; The V-1 and V-2 "Secret Weapons"; The End: VE and VJ Day; A New Jerusalem?