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Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front, 1939-45 (Paperback)

by Raynes Minns (Author)
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  • Paperback: 219 pages
  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; illustrated edition edition (4 Nov 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1860497942
  • ISBN-13: 978-1860497940
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 18.2 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 320,679 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Women of Britain, Your Country Needs You!' Bombers and Mash tells the story of the Second World War on the domestic home front. It takes us from the kitchen to the nursery showing how women managed without almost everything from potato peelers, prams, food, fuel, transport, cosmetics to men. These women coped with rationing, evacuation, separation from families, long hours of work in factories, hospitals and on the land. Through it all, they kept the nation fed on ingeniously nutritious and economical meals - hundreds of the best, and some of the worst, are included here. Moving and fascinating, this is both an illustrated social history and a cookery book offering a remarkable picture of the deprivation and drama of the women's war.


About the Author

Raynes Minns was born in 1946 and grew up in Hampstead. This is her first book and is the result of a fascination with wartime cookery books.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I never knew what "all-out effort" really meant..., 8 Mar 2001
By Bonita Kale (Cleveland OH USA) - See all my reviews
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Maybe it's because I'm a foreigner (U.S.), but I had no idea how all-out the all-out effort to win the war really was. This book is fascinating, full of recipes, tips, and ads from the times, plus memories of those who were there. You get some idea of what it was like cook with hardly any food, wash with hardly any soap, and all this, perhaps, after a long day of factory work and standing in queues.

This is about women in wartime--a bit of good, a bit of bad, a lot of stuff that really gives you a feel for life in that hard, hard time, and yet it's not depressing.

But I'm glad I missed the war!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant book, 7 April 2006
By Nicolaluk (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
I'm delighted with this book. Well written. Would recommend it to anyone interested in this period of Britain's history or womens history/studies. Other books often skim the surface but this has so much more detail and depth.
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4.0 out of 5 stars a bit of a cookbook, 17 April 2009
This was good easy reading but I wouldn't say that it has much original material - at least I am an avid reader of wartime food books and I think I had read most of this stuff elsewhere. However the photographs were good (and different) and the recipes are fun. If this is the first book you've seen about wartime food you will find it quite comprehensive.
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