Description and condition:

Blue cloth hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 835pp, index.

Good copy, moderate wear to spine ends, good clean pages. In worn dustcover with with soiled spine and chipping, now protected.

Contents:

The second volume of Mr. Hammond's history of war-time food control. Foods mainly home-produced: fresh fish; eggs; potatoes; milk. Emergency and communal feeding. Rationing as an administrative problem: before the war; the issue and renewal of ration books the link with the national register; expansion and reform in controlled distribution 1940-45; the rationing of meat; the rationing of tea; conclusion the conditions of success.