... THE historical records of the Second World War will now be appearing rapidly for some time to come. In fact, so many volumes —British. Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand, to say nothing of American —will be coming out that very few readers are likely ...

... BOOKS OF THE DAY. THE SECOND WORLD WAR, AND ISRAEL TO-DAY. IN a moving Foreword to “Best Foot Forward,” by Colin Hodgkinson (Odhams Press ; 18s.), Sir Archibald Mclndoe, the famous plastic surgeon, writes as follows : In 1939 Colin Hodgkinson was 6 ft ...

... rationing after the Second World War. The herd failed to thrive as expected and numbers did not increase sufficiently to make meat production an economic proposition. Undaunted, Utsi imported more reindeer, of both mountain and forest strains, to establish ...

... The seeds of the Second World War were sown in 1919 at the Treaty of Versailles, which had formally brought the First World War to an end. The treaty was a compromise between conciliation and punishment, and proved unworkable. It left Germany with a sense ...

... ALTHOUGH material about the Second World War is accumulating steadily, it is still no easy task to compile an account of the warfare at sea. This, it appears to me, is particularly true of the Pacific. It is not nearly so difficult in the case of the ...

... The table, in fact, understates the improvements achieved, for whereas before the Second World War farmers produced about one-third of the food for a population of 47 million in the United Kingdom, now they produce about half the food for a population ...

... TT is more than twelve years now since the end of the Second World War. The period between the end of the First and the start of the Second World War was just over twenty-one years. Events move more rapidly now than in the early decades of the century ...

... Petrie The Second World War: An Illustrated History by A. J. P. Taylor Hamish Hamilton, £5.95 It is the habit of wars, especially if they are on a large scale, to have quite the opposite effect from what was intended, and the Second World War was no exception ...

... Yanks. The impact of American culture on a small northern British town during the Second World War & the relationships of three Gls with three English girls. Directed by John Schlesinger. with Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Gere & William ...

... IN the course of the Second World War a well-known, popular and public-spirited figure who dwelt not very far from Salisbury ended his days. The most august of the national newspapers recorded the funeral and gave a list of those who had attended it. ...

... in the Second World War. Lorries with four-wheel drive, thus capable of operating away from hard roads, made their appearance once the Americans joined the conflict but it was the tank that changed the face of warfare. Appalled and sickened at the colossal ...

... of the Second World War. The two intervals were filled by minority Labour governments under Ramsay Mac- Donald. The Liberals now sank into permanent third place and never formed a government again. The Conservative ascendancy in the inter-war years seems ...