V for Victory

V for Victory
Title V for Victory PDF eBook
Author Stan Cohen
Publisher Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
Pages 434
Release 1991
Genre History
ISBN

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Tells of the Amerian efforts to provide equipment for World War II and tells of the situation in America at the time.

The Home Front, U.S.A.

The Home Front, U.S.A.
Title The Home Front, U.S.A. PDF eBook
Author Ronald H. Bailey
Publisher Seafarer Books
Pages 212
Release 1977
Genre History
ISBN 9780809424788

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Design for Victory

Design for Victory
Title Design for Victory PDF eBook
Author William L. Bird
Publisher Princeton Architectural Press
Pages 132
Release 1998-06
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 9781568981406

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The poster - inexpensive, colorful, and immediate - was an ideal medium for delivering messages about Americans' duties on the home front during World War II. Design for Victory presents more than 150 of these stunning images - many never reproduced since their first issue - culled from the collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein delve beneath the surface of these colorful graphics, telling the stories behind their production and revealing how posters fulfilled the goals and needs of their creators. The authors describe the history of how specific posters were conceived and received, focusing on the workings of the wartime advertising profession and demonstrating how posters often reflected uneasy relations between labor and management.

Rosie the Riveter

Rosie the Riveter
Title Rosie the Riveter PDF eBook
Author Penny Colman
Publisher Perfection Learning
Pages 0
Release 1995
Genre Women
ISBN 9780780783430

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An account of how 18 million women, many of whom had never held a job, entered the work force in 1942-45 to help the United States during World War II. Their unprecedented participation changed the course of history for women, and America forever.

Taking Leave, Taking Liberties

Taking Leave, Taking Liberties
Title Taking Leave, Taking Liberties PDF eBook
Author Aaron Hiltner
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 294
Release 2020-09-01
Genre History
ISBN 022668718X

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American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be “overpaid, oversexed, and over here.” But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn’t only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by the “good war.” To the contrary, millions of American and Allied troops regularly poured into ports like New York and Los Angeles while on leave. Euphemistically called “friendly invasions,” these crowds of men then forced civilians to contend with the same kinds of crime and sexual assault unfolding in places like Britain, France, and Australia. With unsettling clarity, Aaron Hiltner reveals what American troops really did on the home front. While GIs are imagined to have spent much of the war in Europe or the Pacific, before the run-up to D-Day in the spring of 1944 as many as 75% of soldiers were stationed in US port cities, including more than three million who moved through New York City. In these cities, largely uncontrolled soldiers sought and found alcohol and sex, and the civilians living there—women in particular—were not safe from the violence fomented by these de facto occupying armies. Troops brought their pocketbooks and demand for “dangerous fun” to both red-light districts and city centers, creating a new geography of vice that challenged local police, politicians, and civilians. Military authorities, focused above all else on the war effort, invoked written and unwritten legal codes to grant troops near immunity to civil policing and prosecution. The dangerous reality of life on the home front was well known at the time—even if it has subsequently been buried beneath nostalgia for the “greatest generation.” Drawing on previously unseen military archival records, Hiltner recovers a mostly forgotten chapter of World War II history, demonstrating that the war’s ill effects were felt all over—including by those supposedly safe back home.

You Choose: World War II on the Home Front

You Choose: World War II on the Home Front
Title You Choose: World War II on the Home Front PDF eBook
Author Martin William Gitlin
Publisher Capstone
Pages 149
Release 2012-03
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1620650177

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It's December 1941. The United States has just entered World War II. How will you help your country fight for its freedom? Will you: Help keep the country's economy going as a young mother in the work force? Try to fit into society as a wounded African American veteran? Help end prejudice against Japanese citizens as a 12 year old California boy?

The Home Front in World War Two

The Home Front in World War Two
Title The Home Front in World War Two PDF eBook
Author Susie Hodge
Publisher Casemate Publishers
Pages 303
Release 2013-02-19
Genre History
ISBN 178346979X

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This book brings an era to life with vivid stories and information from those who were there. During World War Two, 90% of the British population remained civilians. The War affected daily life more than any other war had done before. The majority of British people faced this will fortitude, courage and determination and this is their story, the telling of events and situations that forced their ingenuity and survival instincts to rise. Make do and mend came to mean so much more than reworking old clothes and this book describes the enterprise that went on and has long been forgotten. From the coasts and the countryside, this is how those at home faced and fought the war passively, particularly women whose job it was to keep the home fires burning. These ordinary people were crucial to the war effort; without their courage and inventiveness, the outcome could have been very different. Packed with interviews, photographs and other firsthand information, this book will appeal to all those who were there, but even more for those with little or no experience of World War Two, who will gain insights into the humor, strength and creativity that emerged in the face of hardship and tragedy. The book explores how people lived in Britain during times of fear, hardship and uncertainty; how they functioned and supported those away fighting and how they dealt with the enormous challenges and adversities