Zeppelin nights : London in the First World War
White, Jerry, 1949-2015
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Despite the carnage across the Channel, the First World War was almost wholly positive for London. Full employment and huge advances in living standards brought the grinding poverty of the pre-war era almost to an end. Public health was improved. Women's lives were transformed. In the capital converged the many threads of Britain's war: munitions were manufactured; soldiers on their way to or from active service passed through in their hundreds of thousands; refugees sought new lives. Then there were the citizens - patriots and pacifists, clergymen and thieves, bluestockings and prostitutes - all dependent on war's shifting fortunes. This book presents a struggling yet flourishing city.
Main title:
Zeppelin nights : London in the First World War / Jerry White.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage Books, 2015.London : Vintage Books, 2015.
Collation:
356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards:
Spear's Social History Book of the Year Award 2014
ISBN:
9780099556046 (pbk)
Dewey class:
942.1083
Language:
English
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BRN:
1316085