Rations, A Very Peculiar History电子书

Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Dedication

Rations

Quotes

INTRODUCTION: Yes, we have no bananas!

Doing it by the book

Those queues

A royal dribble

CHAPTER ONE: Why we ran short

Counting the pennies

Under the counter

The code-breakers

National Registration Day

CHAPTER TWO: Whale meat again

Imperial measurements

Chewing on wood

Meanwhile, in Holland...

All right for some

Eating out

What wasn’t rationed

Woolton pie

Lord Woolton to the rescue

Potato Pete and Doctor Carrot

How much each?

Baked potato pudding

Ten things to make with carrots

Meanwhile, in America...

Poster power

First catch your squirrel

Dig for Victory

Poor Chad goes without

Follow that horse!

Sausage pancakes

Marrow liqueur

Meanwhile, in Russia...

The Women’s Land Army

A princess at the helm

Animals in your garden

Run, Rabbit, Run

Rabbit stew

Wingless chicken

Everything but its squeak

Enough to eat

A private function

Meanwhile, in Germany...

CHAPTER THREE: Married in a parachute

How clothes rationing worked

What your coupons bought

Meanwhile, in France . . .

Ten strange ways to get by

Siren suits

Yanks and nylons

Make do and mend

Help from overseas

A nation of knits

Salvage

Calling all handymen

Any old iron

Meanwhile, in Singapore . . .

The Squander Bug

CHAPTER FOUR: And a few other things...

Coloured fuel

Life on two wheels

Meanwhile, in America . . .

Shanks’s pony

Yarooh – no comics!

Six publish Enid’s books

Meanwhile, in New Zealand . . .

Something to sit on

Back to basics

Utility furniture

Rules and regulations

An excuse to be dirty

A burning problem

Making your own fuel

Bevin Boys

Ten Bevin Boys

Something to do

Dying for a fag

Sport in wartime

Shrapnel hunting

More strange ways to get by

From smugglers to spivs

CHAPTER FIVE: The black market & other fiddles

How to break the law

Meanwhile in Russia...

Guns, too

Some big names caught in the net

A heavy hand

Insider dealing

Meanwhile, in Poland...

Sneaks and snoopers

How did they go about it?

Caught in the act

Dying for a drink

Reluctant conscripts

An end at last?

CHAPTER SIX: After the war was over

The fallen

Bolshie Britain

Mickey Mouse TV

Revolting housewives

American aid

A royal wedding

Not to be sniffed at

An end to rationing

The Festival of Britain

CHAPTER SEVEN: Never again?

Carbon footprints

Nor any drop to drink

Rationing Timeline

Glossary

End matter

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