Andrew Barrow

Carrying on regardless | 25 June 2015

The British beat second world war shortages at home by adapting inventively, and in some cases carrying on much as before, according to Duff Hart-Davis’s Our Land at War

issue 27 June 2015

  • Our Land at War: A Portrait of Rural Britain, 1939–45

    Duff Hart-Davis

    William Collins, pp. 458

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