Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook345 pages4 hours
Shropshire at War 1939–45
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
With the outbreak of the Second World War, Shropshire authorities immediately implemented pre-arranged plans to cope with the approaching conflict on the Home Front, including the building of air raid shelters and pillboxes and the renovation of redundant camps and disused airfields.
Men not eligible for the services volunteered for the LDV (later the Home Guard), the AFS and the ARP. Women were recruited for a variety of other posts, with members of the WVS dealing with a massive influx of evacuees from Merseyside and Smethwick right from the start.
Shropshire’s factories turned to armament production, coal mines increased their output and farmers cultivated more acreage (an extra 47,000 acres ploughed for food production in the first year of the war).
PoW Camps sprang up, with prisoners frequently seen being transported to work on local farms, while uniformed servicemen and women from Britain, the Commonwealth and America became familiar sights on the streets.
Using a variety of sources, including newspapers and verbal testimonies, the author paints a picture of the effect that six years of war had on those Salopians who, when others marched away, remained on the Home Front. Their struggles, acceptance of shortages, hardships and determination not to give in are reflected throughout this book.
Men not eligible for the services volunteered for the LDV (later the Home Guard), the AFS and the ARP. Women were recruited for a variety of other posts, with members of the WVS dealing with a massive influx of evacuees from Merseyside and Smethwick right from the start.
Shropshire’s factories turned to armament production, coal mines increased their output and farmers cultivated more acreage (an extra 47,000 acres ploughed for food production in the first year of the war).
PoW Camps sprang up, with prisoners frequently seen being transported to work on local farms, while uniformed servicemen and women from Britain, the Commonwealth and America became familiar sights on the streets.
Using a variety of sources, including newspapers and verbal testimonies, the author paints a picture of the effect that six years of war had on those Salopians who, when others marched away, remained on the Home Front. Their struggles, acceptance of shortages, hardships and determination not to give in are reflected throughout this book.
Unavailable
Read more from Janet Johnstone
Oswestry & Whitchurch in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShropshire at War, 1939–45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Shropshire at War 1939–45
Related ebooks
Essex at War, 1939–45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThey Were There in 1914: Memories of the Great War 1914–1918 by Those Who Experienced It Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Illustrated History of World War II Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Britain 1940: The Decisive Year on the Home Front Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorthamptonshire at War, 1939–45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDunkirk: The Epic Story of History's Most Extraordinary Evacuation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Blitz, A Very Peculiar History Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5If Britain Had Fallen: The Real Nazi Occupation Plans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cardiff and the Valleys at War, 1939–45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHitler's Invasion of East Anglia, 1940: An Historical Cover Up? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Battle of Britain Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Burton Agnes Disaster Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Child's War: Growing Up on the Home Front Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsManchester at War, 1939–45 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ultimate World War Two Trivia Book: Unbelievable Facts, Extraordinary Accounts and Tall Tales from the Second World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPeace and War: Britain in 1914 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Glossop in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCambridgeshire at War 1939–45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGrays (Thurrock) in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn the Road to Mandalay Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArmistice Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Home Front in Britain: Then and Now Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings1940: The World in Flames Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kent at War 1939–45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Peace with Hitler: Why Churchill Chose to Fight WWII Alone Rather than Negotiate with Germany Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife in Britain and Germany on the Road to War: Keeping an Eye on Hitler Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Time of Tyrants: Scotland and the Second World War Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Gloucester in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWomen At War 1914-91: Voices of the Twentieth Century Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5They Did Not Grow Old: Teenage Conscripts on the Western Front 1918 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Wars & Military For You
The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Shropshire at War 1939–45
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews