 | London's Burning: Life, Death and Art in the Second World War (Literature & criticism) by Peter Stansky
Buy used from: £8.45 Excellent survey of war artists, with good plates.
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 | Wartime Women: A Mass Observation Anthology: A Mass-observation Anthology of Women's Writings, 1937-1945 (Women In History)
Buy new: £6.30 / Used from: £4.18 Mass Observation anthology of material on women - very useful on evacuation, mobilisation of women, etc.
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 | The Myth of the Blitz by Angus Calder
Buy new: £10.67 / Used from: £8.00 Useful account to correct the stereotypical view of stiff upper lip Britain fighting happily through the Blitz - see Ponting also.
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 | The Road to Serfdom (Routledge Classics) by F.A. Hayek
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £6.99 Hayek's masterpiece condemning monopoly capitalism and socialism alike - a must for anyone studying WWII economic history.
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 | Three Corvettes by Nicholas Monsarrat
Buy used from: £23.78 Exciting and infinitely readable account of a RNVR officer's life on board three corvettes during WWII.
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| 1940: Myth and Reality by Clive Ponting
Buy used from: £11.68 Controversial account trying to debunk the 'myth of the Blitz', but going too far. Read in conjunction with something less biased, but read nonetheless.
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 | George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945 v. 3: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters (Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters George Orwell) by George Orwell
Buy used from: £10.57 Everyone studying WWII social history should read some Orwell - try to read his earlier writing too.
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