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A Taste of Wartime Britain
Author | : Nicholas Webley |
Publsiher | : Thorogood Publishing |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781854182135 |
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This collage of historical memorabilia from Britain includes interviews, eyewitness accounts, diary entries, reportage, and memories from people who lived through World War II.
The Taste of War
Author | : Elizabeth M. Collingham |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780141028972 |
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Yoshio Kita's hopelessness and lack of faith in his future as an ordinary and lonely company worker crystallizes into a decision to take his own life, in what he calls 'execution by Death by Choice'. His only remaining problem is how to spend both his remaining self-allocated seven days on earth and all his worldly money, in this darkly comic exploration of the cult of suicide in Japan, a country with one of the world's highest rates of suicide. From fine dining with a former porn actress to insuring his life, from pursuing his ex-girlfriend to an entanglement with an assassin, Yoshio's last seven days on earth take on unexpected twists and turns as Shimada asks his readers what it means to have the freedom to end your own life, and what becomes truly important when your days are numbered - even if it is by free choice. Sensitively translated by Meredith McKinney, this tale of a very modern Japan is now for the first time available to English readers. Sensitively translated by Meredith McKinney, this tale of a very modern Japan is now for the first time available to English readers.
Taste of War
Author | : Lizzie Collingham |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781101561317 |
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2012 Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of World War II. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. How were the imperial ambitions of Germany and Japan - ambitions which sowed the seeds of war - informed by a desire for self-sufficiency in food production? How was the outcome of the war affected by the decisions that the Allies and the Axis took over how to feed their troops? And how did the distinctive ideologies of the different combatant countries determine their attitudes towards those they had to feed? Tracing the interaction between food and strategy, on both the military and home fronts, this gripping, original account demonstrates how the issue of access to food was a driving force within Nazi policy and contributed to the decision to murder hundreds of thousands of 'useless eaters' in Europe. Focusing on both the winners and losers in the battle for food, The Taste of War brings to light the striking fact that war-related hunger and famine was not only caused by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, but was also the result of Allied mismanagement and neglect, particularly in India, Africa and China. American dominance both during and after the war was not only a result of the United States' immense industrial production but also of its abundance of food. This book traces the establishment of a global pattern of food production and distribution and shows how the war subsequently promoted the pervasive influence of American food habits and tastes in the post-war world. A work of great scope, The Taste of War connects the broad sweep of history to its intimate impact upon the lives of individuals.
The Food Companions
Author | : Richard Farmer |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0719083133 |
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The introduction of rationing in January 1940 ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The Food Companions investigates the cinema of this period and demonstrates the cultural impact that rationing and food control had on both government propaganda and commercial feature films. Combining archival research, detailed film analysis, and the extensive use of contemporary documents and resources, this book is the first to fully address the extensive propaganda work of the Ministry of Food, both inside and outside the cinema. It also explores the tensions contained in images of communal dining, investigating the role that food played in Gainsborough’s narratives of excess and identifying and analyzing a cycle of black-market feature films. Lively and illuminating, The Food Companions will be welcomed by film scholars, historians, students, and anyone who has ever wondered about the important contribution that tea made during the war to shaping ideas of Britishness.
Feeding the People in Wartime Britain
Author | : Bryce Evans |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2022-04-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781350259737 |
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While the history of food on the home front in wartime Britain has mostly focused on rationing, this book reveals the importance and scale of nation-wide communal dining schemes during this era. Welcomed by some as a symbol of a progressive future in which 'wasteful' home dining would disappear, and derided by others for threatening the social order, these sites of food and eating attracted great political and cultural debate. Using extensive primary source material, Feeding the People in Wartime Britain examines the cuisine served in these communal restaurants and the people who used them. It challenges the notion that communal eating played a marginal role in wartime food policy and reveals the impact they had in advancing nutritional understanding and new food technologies. Comparing them to similar ventures in mainland Europe and understanding the role of propaganda from the Ministry of Food in their success, Evans unearths this neglected history of emergency public feeding and relates it to contemporary debates around food policy in times of crisis.
Waste into Weapons
Author | : Peter Thorsheim |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107099357 |
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During the Second World War, the United Kingdom faced severe shortages of many essential raw materials. To keep its armaments factories running, the British government enlisted millions of people in efforts to recycle a wide range of materials for use in munitions production. Recycling not only supplied British munitions factories with much-needed raw materials - it also played a key role in the efforts of the British government to maintain the morale of its citizens, to secure billions of dollars in Lend-Lease aid from the United States, and even to uncover foreign intelligence. However, Britain's wartime recycling campaign came at a cost: it consumed many items that would never have been destroyed under normal circumstances, including significant parts of the nation's cultural heritage. Based on extensive archival research, Peter Thorsheim examines the relationship between armaments production, civil liberties, cultural preservation, and diplomacy, making Waste into Weapons the first in-depth history of twentieth-century recycling in Britain.
The Blitz The British Under Attack
Author | : Juliet Gardiner |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2010-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780007352418 |
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In a series of powerful accounts drawn from diaries, letters, sound archives and interviews recorded during the period of devastation, discovery and transformation that make the blitz such an outstanding event in Britain's recent past, "The Blitz" brings to life the intense experiences, as they happened all over Britain.
Encyclopedia of World War II
Author | : Alan Axelrod |
Publsiher | : H W Fowler |
Total Pages | : 911 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780816060221 |
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A reference to the ideological, military, political, biographical, and social topics surrounding World War II, which is often considered the pivotal event of the twentieth century.