I bought these the other day, about 17000 km away -- except for one which was a gift.
The Battle of Britain: An Air Ministry Account of the Great Days from 8th August -- 31st October 1940. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1941. Thanks, Simon!
Angus Calder. The People's War: Britain 1939-1945. London: Pimlico, 1992 [1969]. A classic which I've not yet read.
Richard Overy. The Air War 1939-1945. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2005 [1980]. Likewise, I'm afraid to say! This edition has an essay on the most important updates to the literature since 1980.
Martin Pugh. We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars. London: Vintage Books, 2009. What you'd expect from the title, but also has a whole chapter on 'the romance and the menace of aviation'.
Sonya O. Rose. Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain, 1939-1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. One way to tell when a book has become a classic is when other books start alluding to it in their own titles ...
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Ross Mahoney
Well it seems you have managed to get them all back home!!
Alan Allport
So are we going to get to see any photos, etc., once you've unpacked and washed your unmentionables?
Brett Holman
Post authorRoss:
Not yet -- there's another batch from Foyles following me by airmail!
Alan:
I see I took 2634 photos between Stonehenge and Duxford, I'm sure some of them will end up here in due course :)
Ross Mahoney
LOL. Its a good bookshop!