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Christmas on the Home Front
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Drawing upon personal recollections, contemporary Mass Observation reports, newspaper articles and advertisements, personal and archive photographs, Mike Brown and Carol Harris look at each wartime Christmas on the British Home Front, from 1939 to 1944.
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MIKE BROWN and Carol Harris are experts on the Second World War Home Front and co-authors of The Wartime House.
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