Britain in the Second World War
von: Mark Donnelly
Routledge, 1999
ISBN: 9780203980835
Sprache: Englisch
139 Seiten, Download: 927 KB
Format: PDF
Contents | 5 | ||
Acknowledgements | 7 | ||
Abbreviations | 8 | ||
Chronology of the war in the west | 9 | ||
Introduction | 14 | ||
Chapter 1 Wartime politics | 18 | ||
The outbreak of war and the downfall of Chamberlain | 19 | ||
The Churchill coalition, 1940–2 | 26 | ||
Beveridge and reconstruction | 32 | ||
Popular attitudes and the 1945 election | 40 | ||
Conclusion | 44 | ||
Chapter 2 The people’s war | 46 | ||
Evacuation and the blitz | 48 | ||
Women at war | 51 | ||
Civil liberties, citizenship and the state | 57 | ||
Conclusion | 64 | ||
Chapter 3 The wartime economy | 66 | ||
Organising the war economy | 66 | ||
The performance of the war economy | 72 | ||
The economic legacy of the war | 75 | ||
Conclusion | 80 | ||
Chapter 4 Wartime media—press, radio and cinema | 82 | ||
The national press | 82 | ||
The BBC | 87 | ||
Cinema | 91 | ||
Conclusion | 95 | ||
Chapter 5 Wartime strategy—Britain and its Allies | 98 | ||
Britain and France, September 1939-June 1940 | 99 | ||
Britain alone, June 1940-June 1941 | 104 | ||
Towards the Grand Alliance, June– December 1941 | 108 | ||
The Mediterranean strategy, 1942–4 | 111 | ||
D-Day and victory in Europe | 116 | ||
Conclusion | 119 | ||
Bibliography | 122 | ||
General | 122 | ||
Politics and society | 122 | ||
Wartime economy | 127 | ||
Press, propaganda and culture | 129 | ||
Wartime strategy | 131 | ||
Index | 134 |