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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: | Bodleian Library. |
ISBN: | 9781851240852 1851240853 |
OCLC Number: | 232711975 |
Notes: | Previous edition: 2004. |
Description: | 41 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm |
Abstract:
In 1942 the United States War Department distributed a handbook to American Servicemen advising them on the peculiarities of the 'British, their country, and their ways'. By turns hilarious and poignant, many observations remain quaintly relevant today. Reproduced in a style reminiscent of the era, this is a wonderfully evocative war-time memento.
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'a perfect gift book' - Independent Publisher's Catalogue 'this book is full of charm and highlights the poignant contrast between two very different attitudes to life' - Lincolnshire Echo 'On seven pages of foolscap, in under 6,000 typewritten words, the unknown author drew up a guide to wartime Britain, and an Ordnance Survey map of its psyche' - The Daily Telegraph Read more...

