[bookshare-discuss] Re: History Buffs, Suggestions Needed Please

  • From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:02:01 -0500

Brian, thanks for your help. I really appreciate it. (smile) Those sound
like promising leads, and I'm off to investigate.

 

Monica Willyard

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker

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From: Brian Miller [mailto:brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:00 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: History Buffs, Suggestions Needed Please

 

Hi Monica,

 

You might look at Paul Fussel's work -- he wrote a lot about popular culture
in Britain and the U.S. during WWII.  Also, Studs Turkel's "The Good War"
has some good passages on rationing during wartime, although from the U.S.
perspective.  

 

Good luck, and happy reading.

Brian Miller

 

 

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From: Monica Willyard [mailto:rhyami@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 4:02 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] History Buffs, Suggestions Needed Please

Hi. If you're a history buff, would you please lend me a hand? My daughter
is doing a term paper for British lit and European history. The topic she
was given to write about is how rationing affected food, entertainment, and
clothing in Britain during World War II. This seems like a pretty narrow
topic to me, and I've only found two books so far that mention rationing,
and both of those are casual references as part of essays about American old
time radio during the war. Do any of you have any suggestions for books that
discuss how people coped with rationing, why it was done, or how Germany
restricted the flow of goods into England? I know about some of this in my
head, but documenting it with sources for a term paper is a different
matter. My daughter has been to the library, and I have looked through 3 of
the old time radio books on Bookshare to see if they might help. I'm stumped
now. I don't even know what to look for in the card catalog system of our
library that might point me in the right direction. Can any of you shed some
light on this for me?

 

Monica Willyard

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker

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