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1. • • The Government War Book was assembled in three parts reflecting pre-Precautionary Stage matters, the Precautionary Stage, and War. The War Book specifies the actions to be taken by ministers and officials in each of these periods.
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   How was the war book prepared?

   • A key planning assumption around which the War Book was prepared was that at the outset of a fresh war emergency a new Emergency Powers (Defence) Bill would be presented to Parliament. The bill would provide for the introduction of sets of defence regulations within each of the principal departments' areas of competence.

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   Why was the war book created?

   • In the unprecedented international situation existing following the end of the second world war, the Cabinet instituted the preparation of the War Book. The Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939 under which the defence regulations in force during the second world war were made expired in 1946.

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   What is the book at war about?

   • Pettegree’s “The Book at War” includes some thoughts about the invasion of Ukraine, dwelling on one emblematic photograph. Taken in Kyiv, it shows no people, no violence, only an apartment window viewed from the street, filled top to bottom with books stacked like bricks—and used like bricks, to block incoming shrapnel and shattering glass.

   From Homer to Gaza, the History of Books in Wartime

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   How did Britain prepare for a war?

   • By 1909, when Fisher retired as First Sea Lord, Britain had floated and resourced a number of maritime options for major war, ranging from the purely tactical and operational to the economic and legal. They had not been moulded into something coherent enough to call a war plan.

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   Who wrote the book that started the Great War?

   • Frederick Douglass described its impact as “amazing, instantaneous, and universal,” and President Lincoln, when introduced to its author, in 1862, reportedly called her “the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” Pettegree, like many others, assumes this famous comment to be apocryphal.

   From Homer to Gaza, the History of Books in Wartime

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   What happened to the UK war book system?

   • By the early 2000s, the entire UK war book system, which cost a lot to maintain, was quietly shelved as the then government's focus switched to the threat from Islamist terrorism and fighting foreign wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

   Is the UK preparing for war amid threats of conflict? Here is what Sky

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4. news.sky.com › story › govt-has-no-national-plan-forIs the UK preparing for war amid threats of conflict? Here is ...

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   Apr 3, 2024 · A 1976 copy of the war book - a large bundle of hand-typed pages, bound together by string - offered a sense of how seriously the UK once took national defence planning.

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   From 1910 Hankey sought to impose order on these disparate ideas by preparing a War Book, setting out the legal and financial measures required of government departments to put economic warfare in place, stop German trade, and blockade the neutral ports serving Germany. 9 First produced in 1912, it was revised annually, and was put into effect ...

7. www.aspistrategist.org.au › in-a-decade-of-dangerIn a decade of danger, it’s time to prepare civil defence

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   Apr 24, 2024 · War books were guides on what would need to be done, and by whom, in the event of war. Preparing a modern war book would help to focus the national mind, break down the abstraction of ‘war’ into its particulars, enhance preparedness and contribute to resilience.

8. www.cam.ac.uk › stories › churchill-at-warHow Churchill Waged War - University of Cambridge

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   Churchill normally prepared extremely thoroughly for his speeches according to Allen Packwood, a world authority on Churchill, director of the Churchill Archives Centre at Cambridge University, and author of the new book 'How Churchill Waged War'.

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9. www.peterharrington.co.uk › the-second-world-warThe Second World War,CHURCHILL, Winston S.,1959

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   The Second World War First abridged edition, first impression, of Churchill's memoir of the Second World War. This work ranks as one of the supreme historical achievements of the 20th century, and is commonly cited as a major factor in Churchill being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. This edition includes a new epilogue of 10,000 words written by Churchill, detailing the ...

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    Feb 19, 2024 · The most fearful reminder of the planned invasion that did not happen—thanks largely to the unforeseen resilience of the Royal Air Force—is a volume, secretly prepared in 1940, titled...