{"product_id":"the-day-peace-broke-out-mike-brown-9781803999517","title":"The Day Peace Broke Out: The Ve-Day Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003e At 3 p.m. on 8 May 1945, Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a long-awaited speech in which he officially declared the war in Europe to be over. After six bitter years of conflict, however, perceptions of how victory over Nazism was to be celebrated and what post-war Britain should look like were very different from the visions of the people and the politicians in 1939. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Illustrated with photographs, adverts, posters and cartoons, \u003ci\u003eThe Day Peace Broke Out\u003c\/i\u003e describes the VE-Day celebrations in Britain and across the world through the memories of those who were there, combined with contemporary newspaper and magazine articles. Mike Brown, an authority on the British Home Front of the Second World War, charts the nation's progressive change of heart from defeatism to growing confidence of certain victory. He looks at the immediate post-VE-Day period and the celebration of victory over Japan in August 1945. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What should have been a story with a happy ending concludes with the harsh realization of post-war austerity and the increasing disillusionment that led many Britons to conclude that they had won the war but lost the peace. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1803999519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803999517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Mike Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241911693567,"sku":"9781803999517","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ff62f01b-6c49-4a56-88c8-d0178cd3ab46.jpg?v=1772656535","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-day-peace-broke-out-mike-brown-9781803999517","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}