The Spade as Mighty as the Sword : The Story of World War Two's Dig for Victory Campaign Humour

The Spade as Mighty as the Sword : The Story of World War Two's Dig for Victory Campaign HumourAuthor: Smith, Daniel United Kingdom, Great Britain Published on 14 July 2011 by AURUM PRESS LTD in the United Kingdom. Hardback 256 pages, 1 black & white illustrations 216 x 138 454g After food rationing was introduced in 1940, and German U boats began threatening merchant shipping bringing in essential foodstuffs, the Ministry of Agriculture decided something had to be done to make the kitchens of Britain more self sufficient. The result was one of

and piercing originality’ Daily Express‘An astonishing achievement of narrative history

acting as both a spy and a translator

and full of curiosities

quantum mechanics and special relativity

Comfort food is tantalising

Paperback | 368 pages

about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were (belatedly) strengthened and how Patten sought to ensure that a strong degree of self-government would continue after 1997

128 x 197 x 31 | 354g

As the country prepares to celebrate its hard-won peace

and insight into how his actions sometimes lead to misunderstandings with the media and the public

reassuring and radically ambitious

And the ambitions of the rival warlord Lancelot threaten the delicate peace