Air Raid Precautions. Stroud: Tempus, 2007. Another one of those books where the publishers have obviously asked themselves, Who'd buy this book? and answered, Well, there's that Airminded bloke -- that's one copy at least. A collection of facsimile reprints of various Home Office/Lord Privy Seal's Office ARP booklets and leaflets: The Protection of Your Home Against Air Raids (1938); ARP Handbook No. 1, Personal Protection Against Gas (1938); Public Information Leaflets 1 through 4, Some Things You Should Know If War Should Come, Masking Your Windows, Evacuation Why and How? and Your Food in War-time (all 1939); Organization of the Air Raid Wardens' Service (1939?); and Inspection and Repair of Respirators and Oilskin Clothing (1940?).
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Has it got the one about how to protect your pets? It's no use just looking after your own oilskin, you know - your dog needs one as well.
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No, that one isn't in it, unfortunately! Starting to think seriously about what should be done about beloved pets when the next war came is probably as good a marker as any for the moment when the public started taking the air menace seriously ...
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