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Author Kean, Hilda, author.

Title The great cat and dog massacre : the real story of World War Two's unknown tragedy / Hilda Kean.

Publication Info. Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.53 KEA    Check Shelf
Description 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Animal lives
Animal lives (University of Chicago. Press)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-225) and index.
Contents Introducing animals, historians, and the "people's war" -- Being a pet in the 1920s and 1930s : a chronicle of a massacre foretold? -- September 1939 : no human panic : 400,000 animals killed in four days -- Disrupting previous stories : a phony war for whom? -- Building cross-species experience : eating and food in the war -- Blurring the boundaries : who is going to ground? who is protecting whom? -- The growing strength of animal-human families and the wartime state -- Emotion, utility, morale on the home front : animal-human relationships -- Conclusion: Change and continuity : remembering and forgetting animals during the Second World War.
Subject World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Animal welfare -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Human-animal relationships -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Food supply -- Great Britain.
Animals -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Animal welfare. (OCoLC)fst00809431
Animals -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00809537
Food supply. (OCoLC)fst00931196
Human-animal relationships. (OCoLC)fst00963482
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Great cat & dog massacre
ISBN 9780226318325 (cloth ;) (alkaline paper)
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