Mike Brown examines the milestone events that led to the nation's progressive change of heart from paranoia and defeatism in the early years of World War II, to the growing confidence that followed El Alamein in 1942.


Mike Brown is an authority on the British Home Front of the Second World War. Mike has written 'Put That Light Out', 'Evacuees' and 'A Child's War' and co-authored 'The Wartime House' and 'The Ration Book Diet', all for Sutton Publishing. He lives in London.