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TOBY'S BIRTHDAY, NEW SHOES written by Mike Cowan and illustrated by Sarah-Leigh Wills is a counting book for children aged 2 to 5 based on a bedtime counting poem, written when his youngest son, Toby, was …… younger!

Life on the Home Front around Barnet during the Great War.

The appalling loss of life on the Western Front in the First World Was has been well documented. However, while soldiers were losing their lives, their wives and families were undergoing privations on the Home Front. This book tells the story of how the civilians coped with everything from sugar rationing to raids from Zeppelins and how initial patriotism and optimism gave way to war weariness and a realisation that victory was by no means inevitable.

With over 140 illustrations and quotations from letters and interviews of those left at home, this work charts the progress of the war in Britain as a whole, in London and, in particular the area of north west London covering Barnet, Finchley, Friern Barnet, New Southgate and Whetstone.

RRP £15.99 ISBN 978-0-95693449-9 - order online via Amazon.