the Second World War While the Second World War produced numerous acts of self-sacrifice， it also made many people The criminal activities of the underworld that extended from the civilian population right through to the armed forces constitute one of the great untold stories of the The Blitz of 1940 may have made a nation of heroes， but in the shadows the shelter gangs and looters Illegal food supplies threatened the nation's health - a consignment of black-market sausages in Hackney contained tuberculosis meat， while the industrial alcohol or 'hooch' served in West End clubs could produce blindness and brain The scale of theft in the army was also Donald Thomas draws on extensive archive material to tell the extraordinary and frequently ludicrous story of these less-than-heroic B The facts he uncovers are often so preposterous that in a novel they would seem (Donald Thomas， John Murray， ISBN 0 7195 5732 1， £00)
While the Second World War produced numerous acts of self-sacrifice， it also made many people The criminal activities of the underworld that extended from the civilian population right through to the armed forces constitute one of the great untold stories of the The Blitz of 1940 may have made a nation of heroes， but in the shadows the shelter gangs and looters Illegal food supplies threatened the nation's health - a consignment of black-market sausages in Hackney contained tuberculosis meat， while the industrial alcohol or 'hooch' served in West End clubs could produce blindness and brain The scale of theft in the army was also Donald Thomas draws on extensive archive material to tell the extraordinary and frequently ludicrous story of these less-than-heroic B The facts he uncovers are often so preposterous that in a novel they would seem (Donald Thomas， John Murray， ISBN 0 7195 5732 1， £00)
