Hardback with Dust Jacket - 128 pages - 265 mm x 205 mm

Numerous Colour + Black & White Photographs

The story of war is usually told in terms of battles lost and won. This book has a very different focus. Using a mass of evidence in words and pictures, Asa Briggs tells the story of Britain in the Second World War in terms of the work men and women were doing in the factories and workshops, in the pits and shipyards, and on the land and the great transport lines. If this battle on the home front had not been won, at a great cost and with many sacrifices, there could have been no ultimate victory. With many personal reminiscences, and illustrated with previously unseen photographs and other archive material from the Imperial War Museum's extensive collections, this book is fascinating reading for all those with personal memories of the home front and for all those interested in learning how wars are lost and won.