Many books have looked at the effect of the war on the Home Front but this is the first series to take a glimpse at the Home Front photographically from an international point of view covering both Allied & enemy countries juxtaposing the same situations in different countries to show a similar response It also looks at the Home Front for those caught behind enemy lines where life was both spartan potentially dangerous & subject to the whim of the victor The photographs included throughout many of which have not been seen before & some which have never been published clearly show that each year of war had a further profound effect on each nation This unique series of international photographic books fits in with the author's more textual books on the Home Front Hull in the Great War & Reading in the Great War both of which explore the complex life of a city at war