The story, based on extensive individual interviews, of the women’s swing bands that toured extensively during World War II and after -- a kind of “League o

This book explores the major cultural forms of 1940s America - fiction and non-fiction; music and radio; film and theatre; serious and popular visual arts - and

Fifty-five years after the end of the Second World War, the Hymers family moved into a 1940s house in Kent under the skies where the Battle of Britain was fough

This captivating anthology gathers historic New Yorker pieces from a decade of trauma and upheaval—as well as the years when The New Yorker came of age, with

Text and pictures highlight the main events of the 1940s.