Fit men wanted original posters from the Home Front

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This book reproduces the best of the Imperial War Museums collection of over 30,000 British Government wartime posters and proclamations, mostly from the First and Second World Wars, and most forgotten after their initial use. 100 eye-catching posters (with 62 perforated and detachable) contain stirring messages that once exhorted citizens to do their bit for the war effort: Eat Greens for Health, Beer: A Necessity to the Strength of Britain, Fit Men Wanted, Victory is in the Kitchen, The Supreme Test of British Womanhood Comes Now. Today they seem charmingly innocent, quintessentially British, and often very funny. The posters that bear them are a treasury of vintage graphics.

Like the much-loved 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster, these proclamations - specially selected from over 30,000 in the Imperial War Museum's collections - are just what we need to keep a stiff upper lip and a sense of humour in our own troubled times.

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Library Journal Review

This collection of 62 detachable 9" x 12" color posters, reproduced from the collections of the Imperial War Museums of England, were originally published by various organizations-from the Ministry of Food to the Wesleyan Methodist Church-during World Wars I and II. Some are recruitment posters with slogans such as "Should You Not Be in Khaki?" while others encourage civilians to save materials like metal, rubber, paper, and food supplies on behalf of the war effort. A brief description printed on the back of each poster provides some historical context for the poster's message and includes, if available, the name of the organization that originally published it. Nigel Steel (principal historian, Imperial War Museums) supplies the only other text in the book: a brief essay about the role of propaganda posters in the British war effort. For broader coverage, readers should consider James Aulich's War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication, which also includes posters from the Imperial War Museum in London. Aulich considers poster art not only from World Wars I and II but also from the Russian Revolution, the Spanish civil war, and the Vietnam War. -VERDICT A marginal purchase for collectors of poster art.-Eric Linderman, Willoughby-Eastlake P.L., Willowick, OH (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.