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CD41 is proud to present a new archive audio CD, the Home Front, a unique collection of restored British actuality and broadcast recordings from the Second World War. An evocative double-disc set, the Home Front features 150 minutes of rare material recorded and broadcast between 1939 and 1945. From Neville Chamberlain's historic announcement of 'war with Germany' at 11.15 am on Sunday 3 September 1939, the CDs cover evacuation, anti-invasion measures, the Home Guard, the Blitz, food rationing, salvage, war work, agriculture, fuel saving, mass observation, rumours, the V-1 and V-2 menace, and finally VE Day on 8 May 1945. Album Tracks 1. News Bulletin 3.9.1939 2. Neville Chamberlain War with Germany 3. Address By King George VI 4. Evacuees Leave London 1940 5. Home Guard Appeal 6. Lord Haw Haw Blitzkrieg 7. Winston Churchill We Shall Fight on the Beaches 8. If the Invader Comes 9. Salvage of Household Materials 10. Dover Hellfire Corner 11. Volunteer Arp Warden 12. Battle of Britain Spitfire Pilot 13. News The Battle of Britain 15.9.1940 14. Farmers Under Fire 15. The Blitz Black Saturday 16. London Wedding Blitzed 17. Max Miller My First Arp Experience 18. Manchester Air Raid Shelter 19. Ed Murrow Somerset in Wartime 20. Work of the WVS Billeting 21. Mass-Observation 1941 1. Workers' Playtime 1941 2. Women at the Benches 3. News Raids on Britain 10.1.1941 4. 5 to 1 on the Land 5. News Japan Enters the War 7.12.1941 6. The Kitchen Front Gert & Daisy 7. London Cabbie in the Blitz 8. Baedeker Raid on Exeter 1942 9. Canteen Concert in Scotland 10. Evacuees Christmas Messages 1942 11. News Italy Surrenders 8.9.1943 12. The Brains Trust Happiness 13. Tommy Handley Put It Out 14. News D-Day Landings 6.6.1944 15. V-1 Flying Bomb Actuality 16. V-1 Attacks Aa Command 17. Raf
