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Article: Living with Dad's Army.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 16, 2001
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Byline: ES TURNER
THEIR DARKEST HOUR: The Hidden History of the Home Front 1939-1945 by Stuart Hylton
FACED with a book on the "hidden history" of the home front in the Second World War, the reader may well wonder who has been hiding it. Who has been covering up our unadmitted shortcomings - the evidence, perhaps, of treasons and conspiracies, of giant profiteering rip-offs and confederacies of black-market crime?
The answer is: Nobody.
Stuart Hylton wanted to correct the popular image of cockneys singing along with Vera Lynn in the ruins of their homes. Fair enough. But he has tapped no lost archives, ransacked no cabinets noirs .
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