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|title=How Britain Kept Calm and Carried On: Real-life stories from the Home Front
|author=Anton Rippon
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=My generation is now at saturation point with 'Keep Calm and Carry On' posters and all the accompanying variations. So much so, I was surprised to learn from this book was that the now ubiquitous poster was never actually distributed. The poster had been planned as part of a campaign to raise morale, but after they were printed, the government felt it would have been seen as patronising, given that Britons were doing exactly that without the government message to bolster them up.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178243190X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alison Weir
|summary=''You must find your finder for yourself.'' So says a nurse to Jim, who is lying in hospital, plagued by some unnamed disease and bad dreams. The finder in question will be an animal totem, a frequenter of a nice, safe and loved place in Jim's mind, that will be able to keep him optimistic, hopeful and perhaps even alive throughout the procedures to come. The title gives the name away as to what the lad sees approach him in his fantasies, but there is no clue there as to what ''we'' see approach ''us'' in the fantastic that follows.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346020</amazonuk>
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