![]() ![]() Then as increasing numbers of men went off to fight, women had to take over their jobs. Before the war most women stayed at home or worked in domestic service Tanks were originally called "landships", but this was changed to "tanks" to confuse the enemy. They were told they were making mobile water tanks for desert warfare. It was TOP SECRET work! Even the factory workers who assembled the vehicles were kept in the dark. Tanks were developed by the British during the first world war You'll have to read the book to find out if it's sausages for Old Georgie, or if Archie's dad makes it home! Meanwhile, here are some war facts that Archie collected while creating his scrapbook. Archie is terrified that Old Georgie will make his way home and find the house empty, or worse still that the local butcher has already turned Old Georgie into sausages! Archie also worries that his dad's letters from the trenches, won't get to him in the country – or that his dad won't come home at all. Just before he leaves London his dog, Old Georgie, goes missing. Like many other children, when the bombing and food shortages become unbearable, Archie finds himself moving to the country. There are Zeppelin raids, news from the trenches and stories of war heroes. Through Archie's scrapbook collection a picture begins to build up of the impact of war on a family and the progress of the war itself. His dad goes off to war, his mother goes to work in a munitions factory, his sister becomes a pacifist and Grandma Albright takes to whacking him with the back of a hairbrush. Then gradually his world begins to change. ![]() When the local bobby cycles down Archie's street, to announce that war has been declared, Archie thinks it is going to be great good fun! He stops playing marbles and cowboys and Indians and starts playing war games. Archie's War is the story of The first world war told through a scrapbook of comic strips, letters, photographs and other war memorabilia collected by Archie Albright, a young boy living in the East End of London. ![]()
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