Publisher's Synopsis
Travel Back in Time to the 1940s
A fast-moving snap-shot of life in England in the war-torn forties (in 270 pages)
A pint of mild costs thruppence ha'penny, Arsenal are football champions, Fred Perry wins at Wimbledon, Mosley leads his 'black-shirts', Stanley Baldwin is prime-minister, An Austin Seven motorcar costs £125, A gallon of petrol costs 1s/5d, King George V dies, Amy Johnson is 'Queen of the Skies', Golden Miller, New-fangled Television, Mass unemployment, Jarrow March, Mrs. Wallis Simpson, Abdication of the King Edward VII, Metroland, Mass Observation, The Road to Wigan Pier, Big Band music, Coronation of King George VI, Nestle's Milky Bar, Dixie Dean's last goal, Craven 'A' cigarettes, Arthur Askey, George Formby, Young Stanley Matthews bags hat-trick for England, The Lambeth Walk, Joe Davis is snooker champion, Preston North End win FA Cup, Noel Coward, Young Len Hutton scores 364 runs, Peace in our time, Hornby-Dublo train sets, Air-raid shelters, Gas masks, Children evacuated to countryside, Hitler invades Czechoslovakia, Jeepers Creepers - Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra, BSA Gold Star motorbikes, Keep Calm and Carry On, There'll always be an England, Hitler invades Poland, It's War! Air raid sirens, German U-boats, The Battle of River Plate, Two million men called up, Vera Lynn, We'll Meet Again, Churchill takes over from Chamberlain, Hitler invades France, Church bells fall silent, Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain, Spitfires and Hurricanes in dog-fights with Messerschmitts, The Blitz, Coventry destroyed, London streets set alight, Gone With the Wind, Rationing, Dried Eggs Build You Up, The Houses of Parliament bombed, Black Cat cigarettes, It's That Man Again - Tommy Handley on the wireless, Ark Royal sinks, Flanagan & Allen, Denis Compton, Gracie Fields, Pearl Harbour, Dig for Victory, Loose lips might sink ships, HMS Hermes goes down, HMS Dorsetshire goes down, HMS Cornwall goes down, Bomber Harris, Women of the Land Army, Monty and his Desert Rats, The end of the beginning, Bogart and Bergman in Casablanca, Bing Crosby, American G.I.s, Over paid, over sexed and over here! Beveridge Report, The Dam Busters, Operation Mincemeat, Churchill meets Roosevelt, Allies invade Sicily, Allies invade Italy, Music While You Work, Bevin Boys down the pit, Jane Russell (38-24-36) on the silver screen, Tommy Trinder on the wireless, Allied prisoners escape from Stalag Luft III, Lassie Come Home, The Andrews Sisters, The Merry Macs, Doodlebugs, The D-Day Landings, Operation Overlord, Paris liberated, Brussels liberated, Glenn Miller goes missing, V2 rockets strike southern England, RAF bombers destroy Dresden, The Battle of the Bulge, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet in Yalta, Allies take Cologne, Hitler retreats to his bunker, Soviets take Berlin, Hitler commits suicide, Knees Up Mother Brown, V for Victory! Churchill stands on balcony at Buckingham Palace, Sports Days, Jamborees, Labour for prosperity, Clement Attlee is prime-minister, Atomic bombs destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Traitor Haw-Haw hanged, Bush DAC90 wireless-sets, Alvis Fourteen motorcar, Ferguson TE20 tractor, Derby County win FA Cup, Dick Barton on the wireless, BBC television resumes, Muffin the Mule, National Coal Board, Freezing temperatures, Deep snow, Tanganyika Ground Nut Scheme, Liverpool are football champions, Tom Finney for England, Butin's holiday camps, Princess Elizabeth marries Prince Philip, Ted Heath and his Music, Railways nationalised, Here Come the Huggetts, National Health Service, Vincent Black Shadow motorbikes, Morris Minor motorcars, Brylcreem, Mrs. Dale's Diary, All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth, Conscription begins, Vauxhall Velox, Pompey are football champions, Wolves win FA Cup, Bob-a-Job, Wakey! Wakey! - the Billy Cotton Band Show, Passport to Pimlico, Noddy Goes to Toyland, A pint of mild costs 1s/2d
