Mixing it : diversity in World War Two Britain /

During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles and prisoners-of-war-chiefly from Europe, America and the British Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain became more diverse than it had ever been before....

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Main Author: Webster, Wendy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
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