Drawing on the archives of the Imperial War Museum, the author presents a lively portrait of life on the Home Front in the First World War. Filled with first-hand accounts taken from diaries, letters and newspaper reports, it reveals the changing life in Britain between 1914 and 1918 in personal detail by the people who actually lived through it.
From the founding of the first permanent European settlement in North America (1565) to the bloody chaos of the British frontier in Pontiac’s War (1763), the vividly written narrative of The Forgotten History of America spans the two centuries of American history before the Revolutionary War. Today, ...
